guttural
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 8
/ˈɡʌtəɹəl/
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/ˈɡʌtəɹəl/ · [ˈɡʌɾɚɫ̩] (US)
Definition of guttural
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Sounding harsh and throaty.
“Arabic is considered a very guttural language, with many harsh consonants.”
“The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.”
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adj
-
Sounding harsh and throaty.
“Arabic is considered a very guttural language, with many harsh consonants.”
“The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.”
- having a place of articulation towards the back of the mouth; in modern use, uvular, pharyngeal, or glottal; in earlier or non-technical use, also including velar.
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Of, relating to, or connected to the throat.
“guttural duct of the ear; guttural pouch infection”
noun
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A harsh and throaty spoken sound
“He was hairy, and his speech of rough gutturals was imperfect.”
“He seems quite an exception to some husbands in that respect!" remarked the Berliner in deep gutturals.”
“"Teeka is Tarzan's," said the ape-man, in the low gutturals of the great anthropoids.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle French guttural, from New Latin gutturālis, from Latin guttur (“throat”) + -ālis.
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