Noun: guttural
| Singular | guttural |
| Plural | gutturals |
Sample Sentences
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He was hairy, and his speech of rough gutturals was imperfect. [1899, Stanley Waterloo, The Wolf's Long Howl:]
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He seems quite an exception to some husbands in that respect!" remarked the Berliner in deep gutturals. [1912, Frederic Stewart Isham, A Man and His Money:]
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"Teeka is Tarzan's," said the ape-man, in the low gutturals of the great anthropoids. [1919, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jungle Tales of Tarzan:]
Nouns inflected like guttural
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle French guttural, from New Latin gutturālis, from Latin guttur (“throat”) + -ālis. See: Latin Nouns '
guttur'.