# guts
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡʌts/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌts

### Noun

guts
* plural of gut

### Noun

guts pl (plural only)
* The entrails or contents of the abdomen.
    Synonyms: entrails, guttings, innards, insides, viscera
* (by extension, informal) Courage; determination.
    Synonyms: pluck, (vulgar) balls, nerve; see also Thesaurus:courage
    It must have taken some guts to speak in front of that audience.
    She doesn't take any nonsense from anyone—she's got guts.
* (informal) Content, substance.
    His speech had no guts in it.
* (informal) The essential, core parts.
    Synonyms: bowels, marrow; see also Thesaurus:gist
    He knew all about the guts of the business, how things actually get done.
* (informal) One's innermost feelings.
    If you need someone to spill your guts out to, I'm here.
* (Australia, New Zealand) The ring in the gambling game two-up in which the spinner operates; the centre.
* (Australian rules football, informal) The center of the field.

#### Derived terms

* black as a dog's guts
* black guts
* blood-and-guts
* blood and guts
* bubble guts
* drop one's guts
* ducks' guts
* duck's guts
* ducks guts
* fight one's guts out
* guts out
* hate someone's guts
* have someone's guts for garters
* misery guts
* play one's guts out
* puke one's guts out
* rearrange someone's guts
* rusty guts
* slog one's guts out
* spill one's guts
* spill one's guts out
* sweat one's guts out
* tub of guts
* work one's guts out

#### Translations

Afrikaans: ingewande (af)
Amharic: ጉሮሮ (guroro)
Arabic: أَحْشَاء f pl (ʔaḥšāʔ)
Armenian: փորոտիք (hy) (pʻorotikʻ)
Aromanian: matsã
Azerbaijani: içalat
Burmese: အူ (my) (u)
Carpathian Rusyn: флякы (fljakŷ)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 內臟 / 内脏 (zh) (nèizàng)
Dalmatian: alaite
Dutch: ingewanden (nl) n pl
Egyptian: (mẖtw)
Esperanto: intestoj pl, intestaro, viscero
Finnish: sisäelimet (fi), sisälmykset (fi)
French: entrailles (fr) f pl, tripes (fr) f pl
Galician: tripada f, entrañas f, tripas (gl) f pl, tripaxe f
German: Eingeweide (de) n pl
Alemannic German: Gehüdel n
Greek: έντερα (el) n pl (éntera)
Ancient: χολάδες f pl (kholádes)
Guaraní: py'akue
Hawaiian: naʻau
Hebrew: מעיים (he) m pl (me'áim), קרביים (he) m pl (qraváim)
Hungarian: bél (hu)
Interlingua: tripas f pl, entranias f pl
Irish: inní m pl
Italian: interiora (it) f pl, viscere (it) f pl, frattaglie (it) f pl, rigaglie (it) f pl, corata f, coratella (it) f
Korean: 배알 (ko) (baeal)
Macedonian: црева n pl (creva)
Maori: whēkau
Navajo: atsą́ siláí
Polish: bebechy (pl) m pl
Portuguese: tripas (pt) f pl, vísceras f pl, entranhas (pt) f pl
Romanian: mațe (ro) n pl, măruntaie (ro) m pl
Russian: кишки́ (ru) f pl (kiškí)
Spanish: tripas (es) f pl, tripa (es) f, mondongo (es) m
Sundanese: peujit
Tupinambá: py'a
Zealandic: dermen pl :
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### Verb

guts
* third-person singular simple present indicative of gut

### Verb

guts (third-person singular simple present gutses, present participle gutsing, simple past and past participle gutsed)
* (Australia, informal) To eat greedily.
* (informal) To show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out).
    He gutsed out a 6-1 win.

### Anagrams

* Gust, gust, tugs

## Danish
### Noun

guts c
* indefinite genitive singular of gut

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ʏts

### Noun

guts f or m (plural gutsen, diminutive gutsje n)
* gouge, a suddenly flowing quantity of fluid
* a chisel type with a hollow beak

#### Descendants

* → Papiamentu: eshi

### Verb

guts
* inflection of gutsen:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

### References

* M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

### Anagrams

* stug