gullet
UK/ˈɡʌl.ɪt/
gullet noun: the throat or esophagus.
Noun
gullet (plural gullets)
- The throat or esophagus.
- Turning a national tragedy into something a person can pay $12 to watch while shoveling popcorn down their gullet struck detractors as perverse, though critics spilled a goodly amount of e-ink debating the actual merits of the work itself.2020 May 26, Charles Bramesco, “Corona-sploitation: is it too soon for Hollywood to make Covid-19 movies?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
- Synonyms:
- gorge
- The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested.
- Synonyms:
- cytopharynx
- The space between the teeth of a saw blade.
- A channel for water.
- A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
- The wide space under the pommel of a saddle; the hollow over the withers of a saddled animal.
Verb
gullet (third-person singular simple present gullets, present participle gulleting, simple past and past participle gulleted)
- To make grooves or indentations.
- The better way is to gullet or "gum" out the teeth on a grinder. Thin, rubber bonded wheels known as Elastic wheels may be obtained in any desired thickness, and it is reasonably easy to get a wheel to suit the size of teeth to be gulleted.1925, Furniture Manufacturer and Artisan: Volume 29, page 234
gullet meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
gullet in Hindi
- the throat or esophagus
- ग्रासनली grāsanlī, घेघा gheghā
gullet in Tamil
- உணவுக் குழல், உண்குழல், உணவுக்குழாய், தொண்டை
gullet in Urdu
- gullet, windpipe
- گلو gulo
gullet in Bengali
- the throat or esophagus
- ওলকম ōlokom
More languagesFewer languages
- gullet in Malayalam
- ഭക്ഷണനാളം, തൊണ്ട, കിടങ്ങ്, അന്നനാളം
- gullet in Kannada
- ಅನ್ನನಾಳ, ಆಹಾರನಾಳ, ಉಣ್ಕೊಳವೆ, ತಿನಿಸುಗೊಳವೆ
- gullet in Arabic
- مَرِيء marīʔ
- gullet in Persian
- مری meri
- gullet in Vietnamese
- thực quản
Examples of gullet in a sentence
- Gallager tossed another drink down his scarified gullet.
- Revvy pulled a hunting knife from his back pocket and sliced open the gullet.
- The little figures made him think of paramecia, sinister organisms with gullets and feeding grooves.
Synonyms of gullet
Forms of gullet
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | gullets |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | gullets |
| present participle | gulleting |
| past participle | gulleted |
| past | gulleted |
Origin of gullet
From Middle English golet, borrowed from Old French goulet, from Latin gula.
Words formed from gullet
Phrases with gullet
Words that rhyme with gullet
Questions about gullet
- What does gullet mean?
- Gullet means the throat or esophagus.
- What is gullet in Hindi?
- Gullet in Hindi is ग्रासनली (grāsanlī), घेघा (gheghā). See Gullet meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is gullet?
- Gullet can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce gullet?
- Gullet is pronounced /ˈɡʌl.ɪt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of gullet?
- The plural of gullet is gullets.
Words near gullet in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: gullet (page history and authors); gullet (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); گلو (Urdu) (page history and authors); gullet (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gullet (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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