Guttlesome
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Greedily eating and gorging oneself; gluttonous. British, dialectal
"'What one of those guttlesome parsons who came every year to our dinners?' A momentary sadness passed over the company; on my mind the impression lingered; the talking, eating, evangelical parson, always going out to dinners, was dead."
Example
More examples"'What one of those guttlesome parsons who came every year to our dinners?' A momentary sadness passed over the company; on my mind the impression lingered; the talking, eating, evangelical parson, always going out to dinners, was dead."
Etymology
From guttle (“to swallow (something) greedily; to gobble; to guzzle; to eat voraciously; to gorge”) + -some (“characterized by some specific condition or quality, usually to a considerable degree”).
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