intransitive verb or transitive verbWord forms: -tled, -tling
to eat greedily or voraciously; gormandize
Derived forms
guttler
noun
Word origin
[1645–55; gut + -le; cf. guzzle]This word is first recorded in the period 1645–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: complex, herringbone, simmer, soup, swab-le is a suffix of verbs having a frequentative force. Other words that use the affix-le include: baffle, gamble, hustle, jostle, nibble