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Guttle vs Suttle - What's the difference?

guttle | suttle |

As verbs the difference between guttle and suttle

is that guttle is to put into the gut; to eat voraciously; to swallow greedily; to gorge, gormandize while suttle is to act as sutler; to supply provisions and other articles to troops.

As a noun suttle is

the weight of a commodity shipment after deduction of the weight of the container, before allowance of tret.

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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    suttle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The weight of a commodity shipment after deduction of the weight of the container, before allowance of tret.
  • See also

    * tare

    Verb

  • To act as sutler; to supply provisions and other articles to troops.
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