Stephen Merchant

I guess as you get older you sort of see the mechanics, even with the best comedians. There's admiration for people I admire, but it's not guttural laughter. It's a wry 'Oh, well done, sir.' But I sort of miss that slightly; I miss the raw joy of comedy I used to get.

English Writer

I very rarely laugh. I remember I used to have a joy at comedy. I remember going to see Sean Lock for the first time live, just in some comedy club when I was 18, and again, just guttural, pure laughter. I didn't know what he was doing; I couldn't see the tricks.

Susie Dent

German has always felt the language that I come back to. It's given a very hard time by most people for being ugly and guttural. In fact, it's one of the most melodic, lyrical languages around. And German literature is amazing. It's just a treasury for me.

English Scientist

Mark Goddard

They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general.

American Actor

Dawn Foster

Hospitals are often grim places: being stuck on a ward is excruciatingly boring, especially when you're too ill to follow the plot of a book, and struggling to sleep through the guttural cries of people writhing in agony in adjacent beds.

British Journalist

Zola Jesus

The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.

American Musician

Guttural indicates a deep, throat-based vocal quality, often perceived as rough or powerful.

Vocal Depth

'Guttural' may sound negative, but it can also describe a voice full of character or emotion.

Not Negative

Use 'guttural' to suggest raw, strong emotions that come out in someone's speech or sounds.

Express Emotion

'Guttural' is used to describe sounds or conditions related to the throat, often in medical discussions.

Medical Context

In medical terms, 'guttural' often refers to symptoms like coughs or voice changes.

Throat Symptoms

In linguistics, 'guttural' refers to specific sounds produced in the back of the throat in various languages.

Linguistic Sounds

'Guttural' can describe the texture of a language, giving a sense of how it feels to speak or hear it.

Language Texture

Some accents are described as 'guttural' because of the strong throat sounds they use.

Accent Features

 she started to show frustration and I started to get worried she'd come up to me and she'd blow bubbles which is a sign a threat display in the wild world but she does blow bubbles and go back to trying to feed me so I don't know what she was really trying to say and then this one time she did this deep guttural

Face-to-Face with a...

 And so I ran out. I left him there. I sat in my truck -- his old truck -- hunched over, this really deep guttural cry coming out of the pit of my belly.