Gobble vs Guttle - What's the difference?
gobble | guttle | see also |
To make the sound of a turkey.
* Goldsmith
To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff. Often used with up
* Jonathan Swift
The sound of a turkey.
(Scotland, slang, vulgar) fellatio; blowjob
* 2009 , Mandasue Heller, The Charmer
To put into the gut; to eat voraciously; to swallow greedily; to gorge, gormandize.
* Dryden Translations From Persius, The Sixth Satire of Pursius :
* 1890s , Poverty Knock :
To swallow.
* 1692 (1616-1704) Fables Of Aesop And Other Eminent Mythologists :
As verbs the difference between gobble and guttle
is that gobble is to make the sound of a turkey while guttle is to put into the gut; to eat voraciously; to swallow greedily; to gorge, gormandize.As a noun gobble
is the sound of a turkey.gobble
English
Verb
(gobbl)- He gobbles out a note of self-approbation.
- He gobbled four hot dogs in three minutes.
- supper gobbled up in haste
Synonyms
* (eat quickly or greedily) (l), (l), (l)Derived terms
* gobbler * gobble off * gobblySee also
* cluck * gobbledegookNoun
(en noun)- Nowadays, he was lucky if his mam's auld drinking cronies gave him a gobble .
guttle
English
Verb
(guttl)- His jolly brother, opposite in sense, / Laughs at his thrift; and lavish of expence / Quaffs, crams, and guttles, in his own defence.
- I know I can guttle, when I hear my shuttle, go poverty, poverty knock.
- The fool spit in his porridge, to try if they'd hiss : they did not hiss, and so he guttled them up, and scalded his chops