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

/ ˈɡʌlɪt /

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of gullet¹

1350–1400; Middle English golet < Old French goulet ≪ Latin gula throat; -et

Word History and Origins

Origin of gullet¹

C14: from Old French goulet, diminutive of goule throat, from Latin gula throat

Example Sentences

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.

From BBC

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.”

From New York Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

That would be the mass equivalent of 370 suns a year disappearing down a cosmic gullet 11 billion years ago at the dawn of time.

From New York Times

The cormorants catch them as they dart away, but the leash keeps the larger fish from going down the birds’ gullets.

From Reuters