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Definition of Guttles
1. guttle [v] - See also: guttle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Guttles
Literary usage of Guttles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"... a sparing hud His jolly brother, opposite in sense, Laughs at his thrift; and,
lavish of expense, f • Quaffs, crams, and guttles in his own defense. ..."
2. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"Does not the world love Court guttles, and millinery, and plate, and carriages?
Mercy on us! Read the fashionable intelligence; read the Court Circular; ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1826)
"From long prescription in this style of writing, a lawyer is a rogue—a physician
kills his patients—a parson has a round paunch—an alderman guttles and ..."
4. Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin (1895)
"guttles:— Gibbon (chapter xlix) ; Milman,' History of Latin Christianity' (Book iv.
chap, vii: an admirable review of an important controversy) ; Bury ..."
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