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gutling

gutling noun: a glutton.

Noun

gutling (plural gutlings)

  1. (archaic) A glutton
    • The Poets wanted no sport the while; who made themselves bitterly merry with descanting upon the lean skulls, and the fat paunches of these lazy gutlings: there was fleshhold enough for the rhyming Satyrists and the Wits of those times, whereon to fasten the sorest and the strongest teeth they had.1854, Robert Sanderson (bp. of Lincoln.), William Jacobson (bp. of Chester), The works of Robert Sanderson

Forms of gutling

pluralgutlings

Origin of gutling

From gut + -ling.

Questions about gutling

What does gutling mean?
Gutling means a glutton.
What part of speech is gutling?
Gutling is a noun.
What is the plural of gutling?
The plural of gutling is gutlings.

Words near gutling in the dictionary

  1. gutless wonder
  2. gutless wonders
  3. gutlessly
  4. gutlessness
  5. gutlike
  6. gutling
  7. gutlings
  8. gutlord
  9. gutlords
  10. Gutman
  11. Gutmann

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