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From Middle English golet, borrowed from Old French goulet, from Latin gula.

• (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈɡʌl.ɪt/, /ˈɡʌl.ət/
• Rhymes: -ʌlɪt
• Rhymes: -ʌlət

gullet (plural gullets)

1. The throat or esophagus.
   • 2020 May 26, Charles Bramesco, “Corona-sploitation: is it too soon for Hollywood to make Covid-19 movies?”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN:
     Turning a national tragedy into something a person can pay $12 to watch while shoveling popcorn down their gullet struck detractors as perverse, though critics spilled a goodly amount of e-ink debating the actual merits of the work itself.
2. (cytology) The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested.
3. The space between the teeth of a saw blade.
4. A channel for water.
5. A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
6. The wide space under the pommel of a saddle; the hollow over the withers of a saddled animal.

• (throat or esophagus): gorge

• (cytopharynx): cytopharynx

• gulleting

• gullet sweetbread

• stick in someone's gullet

• gully

the throat or esophagus

• Afrikaans: slukderm (af)

• Albanian: fyt (sq) m, ezofag (sq) m

• Arabic: مَرِيء m (marīʔ)

• Armenian: կերակրափող (hy) (kerakrapʻoġ)

• Azerbaijani: qida borusu

• Bashkir: үңәс (üñəs)

• Belarusian: страваво́д m (stravavód)

• Bengali: ওলকম (ōlokom)

• Bulgarian: хранопрово́д (bg) m (hranoprovód)

• Catalan: esòfag (ca) m

• Chakma: 𑄚𑄧𑄢𑄧𑄣𑄩 (naralī)

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 食道 (zh) (shídào), 食管 (zh) (shíguǎn)

• Czech: jícen (cs) m

• Danish: spiserør (da) n

• Dutch: slokdarm (nl) m

• Esperanto: ezofago

• Estonian: söögitoru (et)

• Finnish: kurkku (fi), nielu (fi), ruokatorvi (fi)

• French: œsophage (fr) m, gosier (fr) m

• Frisian:
  West Frisian: weaze c

• Galician: esófago (gl) m, gargueiro m, gorxa (gl) f

• Georgian: საყლაპავი მილი (saq̇laṗavi mili)

• German: Speiseröhre (de) f

• Greek: οισοφάγος (el) m (oisofágos)
  Ancient Greek: οἰσοφάγος m (oisophágos)

• Hebrew: וֵשֶׁט (he) m (véshet)

• Hindi: ग्रासनली f (grāsanlī), घेघा (hi) f (gheghā)

• Hungarian: garat (hu), nyelőcső (hu)

• Icelandic: vélinda (is) f

• Irish: slogán m

• Italian: esofago (it) m

• Japanese: 食道 (ja) (しょくどう, shokudō)

• Kazakh: өңеш (öñeş), өзек (özek)

• Kongo: please add this translation if you can

• Korean: 식도(食道) (ko) (sikdo), 밥길 (ko) (bapgil) (North Korea), 식관(食管) (ko) (sikgwan)

• Kyrgyz: өңгөч (ky) (öŋgöc), кызыл өңгөч (kızıl öŋgöc)

• Latin: oesophagus m, gula f, gurgulio f, guttur m

• Latvian: barības vads m

• Lithuanian: stemplė f

• Macedonian: хранопро́вод m (hranopróvod), гр́ло n (gŕlo)

• Māori: pūkai

• Mongolian:
  Cyrillic: хоолой (mn) (xooloj), багалзуур (mn) (bagalzuur)

• Navajo: azágí

• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: spiserør n

• Persian: مری (fa) (meri)

• Polish: przełyk (pl) m

• Portuguese: goela (pt) f

• Romanian: esofag (ro) n

• Russian: пищево́д (ru) m (piščevód)

• Scottish Gaelic: slugan m, sgòrnan m

• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: гр̀кљан m, је̑дња̄к m
  Latin: gr̀kljan (sh) m, jȇdnjāk (sh) m

• Slovak: pažerák (sk) m

• Slovene: goltanec m, požiralnik (sl) m

• Spanish: esófago (es) m, gaznate (es), tragaderas f pl

• Sranan Tongo: gorogoro

• Swedish: matstrupe (sv) c

• Tajik: сурхрӯда (surxrüda)

• Tatar: үңәч (tt) (üñäç)

• Tok Pisin: mambu bilong nek

• Turkish: ümük (tr)
  Ottoman Turkish: بوغاز (boğaz)

• Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎅𐎎𐎗𐎚 (mhmrt)

• Ukrainian: стравохі́д m (stravoxíd)

• Uyghur: قىزىلئۆڭگەچ (qizil'önggech)

• Uzbek: qiziloʻngach (uz)

• Vietnamese: thực quản (vi) (食管)

• craw

• crop

• esophagus

• throat

• trachea

• windpipe

gullet (third-person singular simple present gullets, present participle gulleting, simple past and past participle gulleted)

1. To make grooves or indentations.
   • 1925, Furniture Manufacturer and Artisan: Volume 29‎[2], page 234:
     The better way is to gullet or "gum" out the teeth on a grinder. Thin, rubber bonded wheels known as Elastic wheels may be obtained in any desired thickness, and it is reasonably easy to get a wheel to suit the size of teeth to be gulleted.

• “gullet”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈkuːlːleh(t)/

gūlˈlet

1. to (catch) fish

• Eino Koponen, Klaas Ruppel, Kirsti Aapala, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎[3], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈkulleh(t)/

gullet

1. inflection of gullat:
   1. third-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person singular past indicative
   3. second-person plural imperative

gullet n

1. definite singular of gull

gullet n

1. definite singular of gull

gullet

1. definite singular of gull