Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To drink much or greedily; guzzle.
- To botch; bungle; mangle; haggle.
- To catch (fish) with the hands by groping under the stones or banks of a stream.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To catch fish with the hands, especially by groping under stones or at the banks of a stream.
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Examples
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You may have heard the curling commentators referring to the word "guddle" just now.
BBC - Ouch 2010
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I have an eleven-year-old daughter who climbs trees, swims in rivers, runs as fast as any boy of her age and who dreams of being an artist, a sailor and learning how to guddle fish.
Katharine Quarmby: The Lost Art Of Growing Old Gracefully Katharine Quarmby 2011
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I have an eleven-year-old daughter who climbs trees, swims in rivers, runs as fast as any boy of her age and who dreams of being an artist, a sailor and learning how to guddle fish.
Katharine Quarmby: The Lost Art Of Growing Old Gracefully Katharine Quarmby 2011
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How can this cack-handed guddle be the right thing?
Kenny MacAskill couldn't win Jeff 2009
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If I don`t, the house will be reduced to a guddle that will take me a month to sort out.
Away for the weekend. Spinningfishwife 2007
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If I don`t, the house will be reduced to a guddle that will take me a month to sort out.
Archive 2007-03-01 Spinningfishwife 2007
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How they make such a guddle sound so fresh is anybody's guess.
FallNews 1999
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Tam once more resumed his attempt to guddle a trout, trying to shut out the slurping and grunting sounds to the left of him, where it sounded like Spammy and a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig were attempting to drown each other.
Country of the Blind Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1997
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I was in the fear of my life that they should light upon mine own son Tam, for he knew no more than how to bait a line and guddle trout; but nevertheless he has done wonderfully well at the pack among the ignorant English, and is, (I deny it not to him) the staff of my declining years.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887
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Half of Scotland has texted in to inform the world that a guddle is Scottish slang for "a mess".
BBC - Ouch 2010
bilby commented on the word guddle
Scots - to fish barehanded; a mess.
December 28, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word guddle
"He knelt, and stretched out his hand, palm up. Very slowly, he moved one finger, then the next, and the next and the next, then again, in the undulant motion of seaweed in the water. The big pale eyes fixed on the movement, watching as though hypnotized. He could see the tip of the miniature tail twitch, very slightly, and smiled at the sight.
If he could guddle a trout—and he could—why not a cat?"
—Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross (NY: Bantam Dell, 2001), 251
January 19, 2010