This week's theme: verbs. guttle (GUT-l) verb tr., intr.
To eat voraciously; to devour greedily. [From gut, on the pattern of guzzle, from Middle English gut, from plural guttes (entrails), from Old English guttas.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=guttle -Anu Garg (gargATwordsmith.org) "Wednesday was early closing day in Umtali, a relief for both of us, and Mr. Gordon was not obliged to linger at the tuckshop where he would read the notices posted on the board over the cash register or inspect the polish on his shoes or crack his lumpy knuckles while he waited for me to guttle my ice cream." George Makana Clark; A is For Ancestors; Transition (Durham, N. Carolina); 2000. Sponsors messages: Speak French, German, Spanish or Italian? Speak it better with Champs-Elysees audio magazines! http://ads.champs-elysees.com/wsmith2 Become a Wordsmith.org sponsor. Reach more than 600,000 people in this space. Write to us at sponsorsATwordsmith.org (replace AT with @). ............................................................................ The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straight-forward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture. It's rather simple, rather childish. It is direct and free. -Milton H. Erikson, psychiatrist (1901-1980) Share the magic of words. Send a gift sub: http://wordsmith.org/awad/gift.html Remove, change, or subscribe address: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/guttle.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/guttle.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/guttle.html This message was sent to "[email protected]".
