gullet

From Middle English golet, borrowed from Old French goulet, from Latin gula, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“throat”).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡʌl.ɪt/, /ˈɡʌl.ət/

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• Rhymes: -ʌlɪt
• Rhymes: -ʌlət

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.

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

• stick in someone's gullet

• gully

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• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈkuːlːleh(t)/

gūlˈlet

1. to (catch) fish

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈkulleh(t)/

gullet

1. inflection of gullat:
   1. third-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person singular past indicative
   3. second-person plural imperative

gullet n

1. definite singular of gull

gullet n

1. definite singular of gull

gullet

1. definite singular of gull