verb. (vulgar).—To eat greedily; to GORMANDIZE (q.v.). Also to drink: e.g., TO GUTTLE A PINT = to take off, or do, a pint; ‘He’s been GUTTLING swipes’ = he’s been drinking beer. Hence GUTTLER = a coarse, or greedy eater; a sturdy pot-companion: a GORGER (q.v.). Cf., Thackeray’s The Book of Snobs for GUTTLEBURY Fair. See GUZZLE.
1878. SIR R. L’ESTRANGE, Fables, p. 260. A jolly GUTTLING priest.
