guttle

Attested since about 1650, from gut (“belly”) +‎ -le. Possibly influenced by guzzle.

guttle (third-person singular simple present guttles, present participle guttling, simple past and past participle guttled)

1. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To eat voraciously; to swallow greedily

   Synonyms: gorge, gobble, gormandize, wolf down

   • c. 1692, 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.

2. To swallow.
   • 1692 Sir Roger L'Estrange 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

3. (Britain, dialectal, Northern England) To make a bubbling sound
4. (Britain, dialectal, Scotland) To remove the guts from; eviscerate

• guttler - a greedy eater

• devour
• gorge
• gobble
• gulp

• A Dictionary of the English Language Samuel Johnson (W Strahan ‧London, 15 April 1755)