English
Etymology
From Middle French guttural, from New Latin gutturālis, from Latin guttur (“throat”) + -ālis.
Senses 4 and 5 apparently by conflation with gut and gutter respectively.[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
guttural (comparative more guttural, superlative most guttural)
- Sounding harsh and throaty.
- Arabic is considered a very guttural language, with many harsh consonants.
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
- 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.
- (phonetics) 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.[2]
- (medicine, anatomy) Of, relating to, or connected to the throat.
- guttural duct of the ear; guttural pouch infection
- (proscribed)[3][1] visceral
- 2019 March 10, Beandrea July, "'Darlin'': Film Review | SXSW 2019" Hollywood Reporter
- It’s taking on the social wing of horror (popularized by Jordan Peele’s 2017 hit Get Out) without giving up the guttural antics of a slasher film.
- 2022 June 28, "Gloria Steinem, the Duchess of Sussex, and Jessica Yellin on Abortion Rights, the ERA, and Why They Won’t Give Up Hope" Vogue
- M[eghan, the Duchess of Sussex]: They may target women, but the consequences impact all of us. My husband and I talked about that a lot over the past few days. He’s a feminist too. ... And his reaction last week was guttural, like mine.
- 2022 October, Anand Giridharadas, "The Uncomfortable Truths That Could Yet Defeat Fascism" The New York Times:
- In their own circles and sometimes in public, these organizers warn that the right is outcompeting small-d democrats in its psychological insight into voters and their anxieties, its messaging, its knack for narrative, its instinct to make its cause not just a policy program but also a home offering meaning, comfort and belonging. They worry, meanwhile, that their own allies can be hamstrung by a naïve and high-minded view of human nature, a bias for the wonky over the guttural, a self-sabotaging coolness toward those who don’t perfectly understand, a quaint belief in going high against opponents who keep stooping to new lows and a lack of fight and a lack of talent at seizing the mic and telling the kinds of galvanizing stories that bend nations’ arcs.
- 2019 March 10, Beandrea July, "'Darlin'': Film Review | SXSW 2019" Hollywood Reporter
- (proscribed)[1] crass, vulgar, low, base
- 2005 April 12, Rush Limbaugh, quoted by Tony Sanders "Limbaugh's Loose Lips Lead To On-Air Apology" Billboard Radio Monitor
- I meant to say 'oral sex' throughout, but the guttural term escaped my pouty lips in a moment of pure, unbridled passion.
- 2015 December 11, Ed Pilkington "Donald Trump: I'm still winning despite 'incredible heat' of Muslim ban backlash" The Guardian
- It’s not hard to put flesh on the bones of these poll statistics in the streets of Portsmouth, a pretty little New England town which seems almost too quaint to accommodate the guttural politics of Donald Trump.
- 2005 April 12, Rush Limbaugh, quoted by Tony Sanders "Limbaugh's Loose Lips Lead To On-Air Apology" Billboard Radio Monitor
Translations
sounding harsh and throaty
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phonetics: articulated at the back of the mouth
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medicine, anatomy: of, relating to, or connected to the throat
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Benjamin Zimmer Language Log, 6 November 2005 "GUTTURAL POLITICS"
- ^ R. L. Trask A Dictionary of Phonetics (Routledge 1996) p. 164
- ^ Dot Wordsworth, The Spectator 30 June 2022, "Does Meghan Markle know what ‘guttural’ means? Possibly, she meant visceral"
Noun
guttural (plural gutturals)
- A harsh and throaty spoken sound
- 1899, Stanley Waterloo, The Wolf's Long Howl[1]:
- He was hairy, and his speech of rough gutturals was imperfect.
- 1912, Frederic Stewart Isham, A Man and His Money[2]:
- He seems quite an exception to some husbands in that respect!" remarked the Berliner in deep gutturals.
- 1919, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jungle Tales of Tarzan[3]:
- "Teeka is Tarzan's," said the ape-man, in the low gutturals of the great anthropoids.
Translations
harsh and throaty spoken sound
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French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from New Latin gutturālis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
guttural (feminine gutturale, masculine plural gutturaux, feminine plural gutturales)
- guttural (of a consonant)
- (relational) throat; guttural
Further reading
- “guttural”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
guttural (strong nominative masculine singular gutturaler, comparative gutturaler, superlative am gutturalsten)
Declension
Positive forms of guttural
Comparative forms of guttural
Superlative forms of guttural
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