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English
Etymology
From gut + -ling.
Noun
gutling (plural gutlings)
- (archaic) A glutton
- 1854, Robert Sanderson (bp. of Lincoln.), William Jacobson (bp. of Chester), The works of Robert Sanderson:
- The Poets wanted no sport the while; who made themselves bitterly merry with descanting upon the lean skulls, and the fat paunches of these lazy gutlings: there was fleshhold enough for the rhyming Satyrists and the Wits of those times, whereon to fasten the sorest and the strongest teeth they had.
Cebuano
Pronunciation
Noun
gutling
- A second; one-sixtieth of a minute.
- Synonym: segundo