The gullet is the tube food passes down to the stomach. Stick in the gullet, down the gullet, a blocked gullet.
The medical word is the oesophagus, and gullet is the plain one. Food goes down by muscles squeezing in a wave rather than by gravity, which is why you can swallow lying down. Stick in your gullet means something you cannot accept.
1noungulletThe tube food passes down to the stomach.
“A fish bone got stuck in his gullet, and he started coughing.”
gullet is a body part.
Old French goulet is a diminutive of goule, the throat, from Latin gula.
Latin
gula
Old French
goulet
Middle English
golet
English, today
gullet
From Middle English golet, borrowed from Old French goulet, from Latin gula.
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