Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being guttural.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being guttural.
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- noun The quality of being
guttural .
Etymologies
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guttural + -ness
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Examples
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I find it humorous that "unattractive" qualities in speech are almost inevitably put down to "nasality" or "gutturalness."
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I think the degree of nasality varies from nose to nose and gutturalness from gullet to gullet.
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"I-- sleep!" said the Mexican; with some of the gutturalness of the
The Boy Ranchers or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X Willard F. Baker
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Its gutturalness grated on his nerves, antagonized him.
Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Stuart Oliver Henry 1906
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