Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To form in the throat, as a sound.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To make in the throat; to gutturalize.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make in the
throat ; togutturalize .
Etymologies
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Latin guttur throat + -ize.
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Examples
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How particularly fine the hard _theta_ is in an English termination, as in that grand word -- Death -- for which the Germans gutturize a sound that puts you in mind of nothing but a loathsome toad.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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