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形容詞

guttlesome (comparative more guttlesome, superlative most guttlesome)

1. (Britain, dialect) Greedily eating and gorging oneself; gluttonous.
   • 1861 February 2, “The Sinfulness of Balls”, in Saturday Review, volume 11, number 275, page 115:

     '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.

   • 1919, Lucas Malet, The Tall Villa, George H. Doran Company, OCLC 7541205, page 95:

     Since when I've cleared the table to feed these guttlesome swans—on the best cake, too, which is simply immoral.