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▪ I. guddle, v.1 Obs. exc. dial.
[Echoic; cf. guttle v.]
†1. intr. To gargle. Obs.
1584Cogan Haven Health i. (1636) 7 With the same [cold water]..you may gargarize or guddle in your Throate.
2. To guzzle.
1825J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 41 Guddle, to drink much and greedily. 1867Jim an' Nell 61 in Spec. Eng. Dial. (E.D.S.) 34 Tis ninnyhammer's work, I zay, To graunge an' guddle all tha day, Being gude things be sent 'e.
▪ II. guddle, v.2 Sc.|ˈgʌd(ə)l|
1. trans. To catch (fish) with the hands, by groping under the stones or banks of a stream.
1818Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck II. 167, I guddle them [fish] in aneath the stanes. 1897C. M. Campbell Deilie Jock 268 We waded in the burn and guddled some fine trout. 1951F. S. Chapman Mem. Mountaineer i. i. 10 About this time I learned the art of poaching... I learned to ‘guddle’ trout. 1955‘M. Innes’ Man from Sea vi. 66 You and a friend had been guddling Lord Urquhart's trout.
fig.1893Nat. Observer 25 Nov. 33/2 He dished M. Constans and ‘guddled’ the Moderates by electioneering addresses hinting at religious toleration.
2. intr. To grope for fish in this manner.
1881Blackw. Mag. July 108 We would be plunging down the water like otter-hounds, guddling for the trout under the tree roots and beneath the stones. 1886Stevenson Kidnapped xxi. 202 Stripped to the waist and groping about or (as they say) guddling for these fish. 1966J. Caird Perturbing Spirit xix. 204 He went about on his own, guddling in the burns, bird's-nesting.
Hence ˈguddling vbl. n.
1818Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck II. 170 ‘So this is what you call gumping?’ ‘Yes, sir, this is gumphing, or guddling, ony o' them ye like to ca't’. 1895Daily News 18 July 5/2 Horrible to say, Mr. Graham gives instructions for tickling trout, otherwise guddling, or gumping. |