Guttural \Gut"tur*al\, n.
A sound formed in the throat; esp., a sound formed by the aid
of the back of the tongue, much retracted, and the soft
palate; also, a letter representing such a sound.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Guttural \Gut"tur*al\, a. [L. guttur throat: cf. F. gutural.]
Of or pertaining to the throat; formed in the throat;
relating to, or characteristic of, a sound formed in the
throat.
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Children are occasionally born with guttural swellings.
--W. Guthrie.
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In such a sweet, guttural accent. --Landor.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
guttural
adj 1: like the sounds of frogs and crows; "a guttural voice";
"acres of guttural frogs" [syn: croaking, croaky]
2: relating to or articulated in the throat; "the glottal stop
and uvular `r' and `ch' in German `Bach' are guttural
sounds"
n : a consonant articulated in the back of the mouth or throat
[syn: guttural consonant]
WordNet (r) 2.0
168 Moby Thesaurus words for "guttural":
accented, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar,
apico-dental, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated,
assimilation, back, barytone, bilabial, blurred, brassy, brazen,
breathy, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, check, checked,
choked, choking, close, coarse, consonant, consonantal, continuant,
cracked, croaking, croaky, dental, diphthong, dissimilated,
dissimilation, dorsal, drawling, drawly, dry, dysphonic,
epenthetic vowel, explosive, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal,
glottalization, gruff, hard, harsh, harsh-sounding, hawking, heavy,
high, hoarse, husky, inarticulate, indistinct, intonated, labial,
labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lax,
light, lingual, liquid, lisping, low, manner of articulation,
metallic, mid, mispronounced, modification, monophthong,
monophthongal, morphophoneme, mute, muted, muzzy, narrow, nasal,
nasalized, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized,
parasitic vowel, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization,
pharyngealized, phone, phoneme, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch,
pitched, plosive, posttonic, prothetic vowel, quavering, ragged,
raucid, raucous, retroflex, rough, rounded, roupy, rude,
segmental phoneme, semivowel, shaking, shaky, snuffling, soft,
sonant, sonority, speech sound, squawking, squawky, stertorous,
stifled, stop, stopped, strangled, stressed, strong, surd,
syllabic, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, tense, thick,
throaty, tinny, tonal, tonic, transition sound, tremulous,
triphthong, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar,
vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced, voiced sound, voiceless,
voiceless sound, voicing, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
croaking, croaky, guttural consonant
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