Meanings
comparative more guttlesome · superlative most guttlesome
- UKdialectalGreedily eating and gorging oneself; gluttonous.
Since when I've cleared the table to feed these guttlesome swans—on the best cake, too, which is simply immoral.
1919, Lucas Malet, The Tall Villa, George H. Doran Company, →OCLC, page 951 more example
'What one of those guttlesome parsons who came every year to our dinners?' A momentary sadness passed over the company; on my mind the impression lingered; the talking, eating, evangelical parson, always going out to dinners, was dead.
1861 February 2, “The Sinfulness of Balls”, in Saturday Review, volume 11, number 275, page 115
Origin
From guttle (“to swallow (something) greedily; to gobble; to guzzle; to eat voraciously; to gorge”) + -some (“characterized by some specific condition or quality, usually to a considerable degree”).
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