guttle

Meaning

Verb

1. Often followed by down or up: to swallow (something) greedily; to gobble, to guzzle.
2. To eat voraciously; to gorge.

Noun

1. An act of swallowing voraciously.
2. One who eats voraciously; a glutton.
3. (obsolete) Something which is eaten voraciously.

Synonyms

raven

devour

guzzle

pig

🐖

satiate

tuck away

wolf

🐺

wolf down

scarf out

shovel in

bolt

garbage down

bolt down

engulf

gobble

Hyphenated as

gut‧tle

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɡʌtl̩/

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.