guttural

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The Moldavian clerk replied with his usual guttural, and, opening his desk ensconced his head therein.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to the throat.
  2. adjective Having a harsh grating quality, as certain sounds produced in the back of the mouth.
  3. adjective Linguistics Velar.

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  • It was low and guttural, and the power behind it made my skin crawl. —  EmbracetheNight
  • The general's Spanish was guttural, as if he were speaking a language still partly unfamiliar to him. —  058 - The Golden Peril
  • Her voice came between her teeth, guttural, and the face into which his startled eyes looked was the face of Jezebel of the Sand Coulee. —  The Fighting Shepherdess
  • Their language is extremely guttural, and not pleasant at first, but improves as you hear it more, and is said to have great capacity. —  Two Years Before the Mast
  • A somewhat disturbing incident followed, for the guttural voice of someone nowhere to be seen rebuked James Munroe for absenting himself from the vessel for two days and indulging in intoxicating drink to excess and for purloining a poor farmer's fowls, which even the painful results to himself could not excuse. —  The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century
 

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  1. French, from New Latin gutturālis, from Latin guttur, throat.

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  1. = French guttural = Spanish gutural = Portuguese guttural = Italian gutturale, from New Latin gutturalis, from Latin guttur, the throat: see guttur.
 

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/ˈgətərəl/
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