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gullet

[ guhl-it ]

noun

  1. the esophagus.
  2. the throat or pharynx.
  3. a channel for water.
  4. a gully or ravine.
  5. a preparatory cut in an excavation.
  6. a concavity between two sawteeth, joining them at their bases.


verb (used with object)

  1. to form a concavity at the base of (a sawtooth).

gullet

/ ˈɡʌɪ /

noun

  1. a less formal name for the oesophagus oesophageal
  2. the throat or pharynx
  3. mining quarrying a preliminary cut in excavating, wide enough to take the vehicle that removes the earth
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of gullet1

1350–1400; Middle English golet < Old French goulet Latin gula throat; -et
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of gullet1

C14: from Old French goulet, diminutive of goule throat, from Latin gula throat
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As this pink delicacy was halfway down my gullet, you screamed out, “Tidbit, that’s the prop! We still need to shoot a closeup from another angle.”

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Mobula rays feed by swimming open-mouthed through plankton-rich regions of the ocean and filtering plankton particles into their gullet as water streams into their mouths and out through their gills.

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A pre-tournament trip to Hong Kong had included an infamous night out with bottles of spirits being poured down players' gullets while they reclined in in a dentist chair.

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Visitors slid down the pole in “The Fire Cat,” slithered into the gullet of the boa constrictor in “Where the Sidewalk Ends” and lounged in a faux bubble bath in “Harry the Dirty Dog.”

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After days of agony, success is a room of people glancing at Lizzy’s work while stuffing their gullets with cheese.

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