Guttle vs Gourmandise - What's the difference?
guttle | gourmandise | Synonyms |
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 :
To eat food in a gluttonous manner; to gorge; to make a pig of oneself.
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 3, ch. IV, ''Happy
* 2000 , Frank McLynn, Villa and Zapata: A Biography of the Mexican Revolution , Pimlico (2001), ISBN 9780712666770,
* 2008 , Neville Phillips, The Stage Struck Me! , Matador (2008), ISBN 9781906510435,
gluttony
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Gourmandise is a synonym of guttle.
As verbs the difference between guttle and gourmandise
is that guttle is to put into the gut; to eat voraciously; to swallow greedily; to gorge, gormandize while gourmandise is to eat food in a gluttonous manner; to gorge; to make a pig of oneself.As a noun gourmandise is
gluttony.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
Derived terms
* guttler - a greedy eaterSee also
* devour * gorge * gobble * gulpReferences
*gourmandise
English
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
* gormandise * gourmandize * gormandizeVerb
(gourmandis)- A benevolent old Surgeon sat once in our company, with a Patient fallen sick by gourmandising , whom he had just, too briefly in the Patient’s judgment, been examining.
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- Even as the envoys from Europe, Japan, Latin America and the United States gourmandised their way through the eight savoury courses served on silver plates and the two dessert courses brought in on plates of solid gold, their ears were bombarded by the multiple counterpoint and polyphony of sixteen bands in Mexico City's main square or Zócalo below.
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- but there was no cream, no butter, no foie gras, no soufflés, no beef fillet steaks, no rich sauces or runny cheeses such as I had been gourmandising on for a whole week – not to mention the many bottles of champagne, wine and brandy.