c. 1795. Wolcot [P. Pindar], Peter’s Pension, in wks. (Dublin, 1795), vol. i., p. 484. Lo, for a little meat and guzzle, This sneaking cur, too, takes the muzzle.
Verb. (vulgar).—1. To drink greedily, or to excess.
1607. Dekker, Westward Ho, v., 1. My master and Sir Gosling are guzzling; they are dabbling together fathom-deep.
1693. Dryden, Persius, vi., 51. And, lavish of suspense, Quaffs, crams, and guttles, in his own defence.
1698. Farquhar, Love and a Bottle, Act i. His education could reach no farther than to guzzle fat ale.
1727. Gay, Beggars Opera, i., 3. Tom Tipple, a guzzling soaking sot, who is always too drunk to stand himself.
1748. T. Dyche, Dictionary (5th ed.). Guzzle (v.) to tipple, to fuddle, to drink much and greedily.
1782. Wolcot [P. Pindar], Lyric Odes, Ode i. The poet might have guttled till he split.
1849. Thackeray, Pendennis, ch. lxi. Are you … to tell me that the aim of life is to guttle three courses and dine off silver?
Guzzle-guts, subs. (common).—A glutton; a hard drinker.—Lex. Bal. (1811). See Guzzle.