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gutlings

gutlings is the plural of gutling.

Meaning of gutling

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

Questions about gutlings

What is gutlings the plural of?
Gutlings is the plural of gutling.

Words near gutlings in the dictionary

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

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