gullet
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6.0
- noun
- /ˈɡʌlɪt/
:
esófago
- The doctor explained how the gullet functions to transport food from the mouth to the stomach.
- slid down her gullet
- stuff down your gullet
- poured down her gullet
You bust that little hoe out, throw it down your gullet.
- You bust that little hoe out, throw it down your gullet.
- That catfish fillet while I put it in my mouth and that mother swam right down my gullet.
- So fill your gullet with that Italian bullet baby.
- You have sweet rocks that have emotions and throw festivals and bowls inside my gullet where you're from.
Examples
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The songbird stretched his neck, his gullet up to the sky.
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I want all the drinks poured directly down my gullet.
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The terror of the thought of fending for herself turned her stomach and rose to her gullet.
Fiction book (2001) -
So bread, HFCS, and other not-so-good things went down my gullet that week.
Blog text (31) -
Lucian held up the jar and poured some of the liquid down the poet's gullet.
Fiction book (1995) -
Finally, I swallowed several times, forcing the big lump of half-chewed goo down my gullet.
Fiction book (1993) -
"The broth will slide down my gullet just easy," Margaret said, stroking her throat with emaciated fingers as if to demonstrate.
Fiction book (1992) -
After swallowing, the food traveled down her gullet and into her stomach.
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He felt a lump in his gullet as he tried to speak about the difficult topic.
Synonyms
27
4.4
A muscular tube that carries food and drink from the throat to the stomach
2
9.9
A passage in the throat that leads to the stomach in some animals
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gullet comes from the Latin word gula, which means 'throat'. The same root appears in glutton, a person who eats too much, so gullet is the tube that carries food down to the stomach.