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語源

From 中期英語 golet, borrowed from Old French goulet, from Latin gula.

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈɡʌl.ɪt/, /ˈɡʌl.ət/
• 韻: -ʌlɪt
• 韻: -ʌlət

名詞

gullet (plural gullets)

1. The throat or esophagus.
   • 2020 May 26, Charles Bramesco, “Corona-sploitation: is it too soon for Hollywood to make Covid-19 movies?”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Turning a national tragedy into something a person can pay $12 to watch while shoveling popcorn down their gullet struck detractors as perverse, though critics spilled a goodly amount of e-ink debating the actual merits of the work itself.

2. (cytology) The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested.
3. The space between the teeth of a saw blade.
4. A channel for water.
5. A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
6. The wide space under the pommel of a saddle; the hollow over the withers of a saddled animal.

同意語

• (throat or esophagus): gorge
• (cytopharynx): cytopharynx

派生語

関連する語

• gully

参考

動詞

gullet (third-person singular simple present gullets, present participle gulleting, simple past and past participle gulleted)

1. To make grooves or indentations.
   • 1925, Furniture Manufacturer and Artisan: Volume 29‎, page 234:

     The better way is to gullet or "gum" out the teeth on a grinder. Thin, rubber bonded wheels known as Elastic wheels may be obtained in any desired thickness, and it is reasonably easy to get a wheel to suit the size of teeth to be gulleted.

参照

• “gullet”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.