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Gorge vs Guttle - What's the difference?

gorge | guttle |

As verbs the difference between gorge and guttle

is that gorge is while guttle is to put into the gut; to eat voraciously; to swallow greedily; to gorge, gormandize.

gorge

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl), from

Noun

(en noun)
  • A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.
  • * '>citation
  • The throat or gullet.
  • * Spenser
    • Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Now, how abhorred! my gorge rises at it.
  • That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
  • * Spenser
    • And all the way, most like a brutish beast, / He spewed up his gorge , that all did him detest.
  • A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction.
    • an ice gorge in a river
  • (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
    • (Gwilt)
  • (nautical) The groove of a pulley.

    • Verb

    (gorg)
  • To eat greedily and in large quantities.
    • They gorged themselves on chocolate and cake.
  • To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
  • * Johnson
    • The fish has gorged the hook.
  • To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
  • * Dryden
    • Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite.
  • * Addison
    • The giant, gorged with flesh, and wine, and blood, / Lay stretch'd at length and snoring in his den
    Derived terms
    * disgorge * engorge

    Etymology 2

    Shortened from gorgeous .

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (UK, slang) Gorgeous.
    • Oh, look at him: isn't he gorge ?

    Anagrams

    * English intransitive verbs ----

    guttle

    English

    Verb

    (guttl)
  • To put into the gut; to eat voraciously; to swallow greedily; to gorge, gormandize.
  • * Dryden Translations From Persius, The Sixth Satire of Pursius :
    • His jolly brother, opposite in sense, / Laughs at his thrift; and lavish of expence / Quaffs, crams, and guttles, in his own defence.
  • * 1890s , Poverty Knock :
    • I know I can guttle, when I hear my shuttle, go poverty, poverty knock.
  • To swallow.
  • * 1692 (1616-1704) Fables Of Aesop And Other Eminent Mythologists :
    • 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

    Derived terms

    * guttler - a greedy eater

    See also

    * devour * gorge * gobble * gulp

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