Synonyms for gullets
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : guhl-it |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈgʌl ɪt |
Définition of gullets
Origin :- c.1300 (as a surname), from Old French golet "neck (of a bottle); gutter; bay, creek," diminutive of gole "throat, neck" (Modern French guele), from Latin gula "throat," also "appetite," from PIE root *gwele- "swallow" (cf. Latin gluttire "to gulp down, devour," Old English ceole "throat," Old Church Slavonic glutu "gullet," Old Irish gelim "I devour").
- noun neck
- But also the schools are out and the joy of life is hissing up a hundred gullets.
- Extract from : « Journeys to Bagdad » by Charles S. Brooks
- In Palestine we shall at least dare to be true to our own gullets.'
- Extract from : « Ghetto Comedies » by Israel Zangwill
- We will put no more money into bread to go into their gullets.
- Extract from : « Marching Men » by Sherwood Anderson
- They had no time to waste in removing hooks from the gullets of fish.
- Extract from : « The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn » by John R. Spears
- A swarm of them, and all with a wolf in their stomachs and a sponge in their gullets.
- Extract from : « The Cloister and the Hearth » by Charles Reade
- "It'll wash the dust out of our gullets, anyhow," said one of them.
- Extract from : « The Crock of Gold » by James Stephens
- I should like to stuff their philosophy down their gullets again.
- Extract from : « Les Misrables » by Victor Hugo
- Get away from here, you water rats, or you'll get a shot or two in your gullets that you won't like.
- Extract from : « The Liberty Boys Running the Blockade » by Harry Moore
- For the Provençaux are famous trencher-men, and the way that leads through their gullets is not the longest way to their hearts.
- Extract from : « The Christmas Kalends of Provence » by Thomas A. Janvier
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