Etymology

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Today it means: To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto. Full definition →

Old French gouziller
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  1. Old French · derived fromgouziller
  2. English todayguzzle

Probably imitative of the sound of drinking eagerly; or from Old French gouziller, gosillier (“to pass through the throat”), from gosier (“throat”), and akin to Italian gozzo (“throat; a bird's crop”). First attested in 1576.

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