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Is guttle a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word guttle is a Scrabble US word. The word guttle is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is guttle a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word guttle is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

GUTTLE,

5-letter words (2 found)

GLUTE,GULET,

4-letter words (9 found)

GELT,GLUE,GLUT,GULE,LUGE,LUTE,TEGU,TELT,TULE,

3-letter words (17 found)

ELT,GEL,GET,GUE,GUL,GUT,LEG,LET,LEU,LUG,TEG,TEL,TET,TUG,TUT,ULE,UTE,

2-letter words (6 found)

EL,ET,GU,TE,UG,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 36 words from guttle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of guttle

guttle

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡʌtl̩/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡʌt(ə)l/, [-ɾ(ə)l]
  • Rhymes: -ʌtəl
  • Hyphenation: gut‧tle

Etymology 1

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.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) Often followed by down or up: to swallow (something) greedily; to gobble, to guzzle.
    Synonyms: ingurgitate, scarf, scoff, wolf down; see also Thesaurus:eat
  2. (intransitive) To eat voraciously; to gorge.
    Synonym: gormandize
Derived terms
  • guttler
  • guttlesome
Translations

Noun

guttle (plural guttles)

  1. (British, dialectal)
    1. An act of swallowing voraciously.
    2. One who eats voraciously; a glutton.
      Synonyms: gorger, gourmandizer, guttler; see also Thesaurus:glutton
  2. (obsolete, rare) Something which is eaten voraciously.
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Etymology 2

Borrowed from Scots guttle, from gut (“to eviscerate”) + -le (frequentative suffix).

Verb

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

  1. (transitive, British, dialectal, Scotland) To remove the guts or entrails from (a person or an animal); to disembowel, to eviscerate, to gut.
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Etymology 3

Origin unknown; possibly imitative of water bubbling or gurgling.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, Northern England) To make a bubbling sound; to gurgle.
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References

Further reading

  • gluttony on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Samuel Johnson (1755 April 15) “To GU′TTLE”, in A Dictionary of the English Language: […], volumes I (A–K), London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, for J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton;  […], →OCLC, column 1.
  • Joseph Wright, editor (1900), “GUTTLE, v. and sb.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumes II (D–G), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 769, column 2.

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