guttle
Plural: guttles
Verb
Verb Forms: guttled, guttling, guttles
- To eat or drink greedily and quickly.
- eat greedily
- Often followed by down or up: to swallow (something) greedily; to gobble, to guzzle.
- To eat voraciously; to gorge.
- To remove the guts or entrails from (a person or an animal); to disembowel, to eviscerate, to gut.
- To make a bubbling sound; to gurgle.
Noun
- An act of swallowing voraciously.
- One who eats voraciously; a glutton.
- Something which is eaten voraciously.
Examples
- After a grueling Words With Friends session, he needed to guttle some snacks.
Origin / Etymology
The verb is possibly derived from gut (“belly”) + -le (frequentative suffix), perhaps influenced by guzzle (“to drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Synonyms
devour, pig, raven, Homer Simpson, belly-god, buzgut, cormorant, eat, epicure, fret, gannet, glutton, gorger, gormandize, gormandizer, gourmand, gourmandizer, greedyguts, guttle, guttler, have, helluo, hog, ingurgitate, scarf, scoff, slow belly, trencherman, wolf down
Scrabble Score: 7
guttle: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordguttle: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
guttle: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary