# gut
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English gut, gutte, gotte, from Old English gutt (usually in plural guttas (“guts, entrails”)), from Proto-Germanic *gut-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”). Related to English gote (“drain”), Old English ġēotan (“to pour”). More at gote, yote.
The verb is from Middle English gutten, gotten (“to gut”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡʌt/
* Audio (US, Inland Northern American):(file)
* (Northern England) IPA: /ɡʊt/
* Rhymes: -ʌt

### Noun

gut (countable and uncountable, plural guts)
* The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.
* (informal) The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged.
    You've developed quite a beer gut since I last met you.
* (uncountable) The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.
* A person's emotional, visceral self.
    I have a funny feeling in my gut.
* (informal) A class that is not demanding or challenging.
    You should take Intro Astronomy: it's a gut.
* A narrow passage of water.
    the Gut of Canso
** 1887 March 21, Rudyard Kipling, “Kidnapped”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., published 1888, →OCLC, page 111:There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken any way you please, is bad, / And strands them in forsaken guts and creeks / No decent soul would think of visiting.
* The sac of silk taken from a silkworm when ready to spin its cocoon, for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. When dry, it is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fishing line.

#### Synonyms

* (alimentary canal, intestine): alimentary canal, digestive system, guts, intestine, tharm, innards
* (abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged): abdomen, beer belly (enlarged), beer gut (UK, enlarged), belly, paunch (enlarged), potbelly (enlarged), stomach, tum, tummy
* (intestines of an animal used to make strings): catgut

#### Derived terms

* beer-gut
* blind gut
* bust a gut
* bust one's gut
* catgut
* double gut shot
* gag a buzzard off a gut wagon
* gag a dog off a gut wagon
* go with one's gut
* gut barging
* gut bomb
* gut bread
* gut-bread
* gut buster
* gut-busting
* gut check
* gut-check
* gut course
* gut factor
* gut feel
* gut feeling
* gut fermentation syndrome
* gut flora
* gut hook
* gutless
* gut load
* gut out
* gut-pudding
* gut punch
* gut reaction
* gut rehab
* gut roll
* gut rot
* gut-scraper
* gut shoot
* gut-shoot
* gut shot
* gut-shot
* gut-shot straight
* gut shot straight
* gutsy
* gut-tie
* gut up
* gutweed
* gut-wrenched
* gut-wrenching
* gut-wrenchingly
* hate someone's guts
* knock a buzzard off a gut wagon
* knock a dog off a gut wagon
* knock a skunk off a gut wagon
* leaky gut syndrome
* marrow gut
* maw-gut
* midgut
* minikin gut
* pinch-gut
* roid gut
* rotgut
* rot gut
* split a gut
* stink a buzzard off a gut wagon
* stink a dog off a gut wagon
* stink a skunk off a gut wagon
* tailgut
* tail-gut
* tail gut
* through-gut
* up the gut
* water gut

#### Translations

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### Verb

gut (third-person singular simple present guts, present participle gutting, simple past and past participle gutted)
* (transitive) To eviscerate.
    Holonym: field dress
    Coordinate terms: bone, skin
    The fisherman guts the fish before cooking them.
    The lioness gutted her prey.
* (transitive) To remove or destroy the most important parts of.
    Fire gutted the building.
    Congress gutted the welfare bill.
** 1982 July 20, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.12 Wreckage and Impact Information”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Pilgrim Airlines Flight 458, deHavilland DHC-6-100, N127PM, Near Providence, Rhode Island, February 21, 1982‎, archived from the original on 3 April 2024, page 4:The fuselage came to rest 522 feet from the initial impact point on a magnetic heading of 175 degrees. The complete fuselage from the nose section, including the nose gear section, aft to the empennage, was extensively burned and gutted by fire. The cabin area, which consisted of only the lower fuselage, was melted and the metal was visible in the ice.
* (transitive) To dishearten; to crush (the spirits of).
    They were gutted by the court's decision.
** 2016 October 4, Danielle Pearl, In Ruins, Forever, →ISBN:It's no worse than what he said in Miami, but hearing him repeat it, attribute it to my father...it guts me. “That's who your family is. Who you are. Stangers—Stanleys, whatever your fucking names are,” he spits.
** 2017 October 4, Angela Quarles, Earning It: A Romantic Comedy, Unsealed Room Press, →ISBN:What's bothering me is that I'd felt more for him than I realized, and it guts me that it's over before it can really get going.

#### Derived terms

* gut for

#### Related terms

* gutting, gutted

#### Translations
### Adjective

gut (comparative more gut, superlative most gut)
* Made of gut.
    a violin with gut strings
* Instinctive.
    gut reaction

#### Related terms

* blood-and-guts

#### Translations

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### Anagrams

* UTG, tug

## Central Franconian
### Alternative forms

* got (northern Moselle Franconian)
* jot (Ripuarian)

### Etymology

From Old High German guod, northern variant of guot.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡuːt/

### Adjective

gut (masculine gude, feminine gut, comparative besser, superlative et beste)
* (southern Moselle Franconian) good

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡut/, [ɡ̊ud̥]

### Etymology 1

From Norwegian gutt.

#### Noun

gut c (singular definite gutten, plural indefinite gutter)
* boy, lad, bloke

##### Inflection
### Etymology 2

From English gut.

#### Noun

gut c (singular definite gutten, not used in plural form)
* gut (intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc)

## Dutch
### Etymology

A minced oath from God.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Interjection

gut
* gee
    Synonym: goh
    Gut, daar heb ik nooit zo over nagedacht. ― Gee, I never thought of it that way.

## German
### Alternative forms

* gůt (Early New High German)

### Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German guot, from Old High German guot, from Proto-West Germanic *gōd, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, be associated, suit”).
Cognate to Luxembourgish gutt, Silesian East Central German gutt, Dutch goed, West Frisian goed, Saterland Frisian goud, English good, Danish god, Norwegian god and Swedish god.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡuːt/ (standard)
* Audio (Germany):(file)
* Audio (Germany):(file)
* Audio (Austria):(file)
* IPA: /ɡʊt/ (colloquial, chiefly for the interjection)
* Rhymes: -uːt

### Adjective

gut (strong nominative masculine singular guter, comparative besser, superlative am besten)
* good (acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral)
    Wir müssen gut sein, um uns gut zu fühlen.We must be good to feel good.
* good (effective; useful)
    ein guter Plana sound plan
* good (fortunate)
    Der hat's gut.That guy's well off.
* good (having a particularly pleasant taste)
    Mmmh, das schmeckt gut.Yum, that's tasty.
* all right, fair, proper (satisfactory)
    Ist schon gut.That's enough.
* good (full; entire; at least as much as)
    Eine gute StundeAt least an hour

#### Antonyms

* schlecht (qualitatively or ethically bad)
* böse (morally evil)

#### Derived terms

* Beste
* Gut
* gut gehen, gutgehen
* Guthaben
* Gutmensch
* ungut
* zu guter Letzt

#### Related terms

* Gut

### Adverb

gut (comparative besser, superlative am besten)
* well (accurately, competently, satisfactorily)
    Die Mannschaft hat gut gespielt.The team played well.
* a little more than (with measurements)
    Antonym: knapp
    Ich wohne seit gut zwanzig Jahren in Berlin.I've lived in Berlin for over twenty years/for a good twenty years.
    Das Bett ist gut zwei Meter lang.The bed is a little over two meters long.
* easily, likely
    Dieser Gegenstand ist gut zu finden.That item is easily found.
    Es kann gut sein, dass du nächstes Jahr verheiratet bist.You may well be married next year.

### Interjection

gut
* okay, all right, now then
    Gut, dann fangen wir mal an.All right, then let's get started.

### Further reading

* “gut” in Duden online
* “gut” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
* “gut” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
* “gut” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.

## Middle English
### Noun

gut
* Alternative form of gutte

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

Possibly from Dutch guit (“troublemaker”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡʉːt/

### Noun

gut m (definite singular guten, indefinite plural gutar, definite plural gutane)
* a boy (young male)

#### Derived terms

* ballgut

### See also

* gutt (Bokmål)

### References

“gut” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Pennsylvania German
### Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German guot. Compare German gut, Dutch goed, English good.

### Adjective

gut (comparative besser, superlative bescht)
* good
* kind

#### Related terms

* besser
* bescht

## Polabian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German gut.

### Adverb

gut
* well

### References

* Polański, Kazimierz (1971) “gut”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 2 (ďüzd – ľotü), Wrocław, Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page 189
* Olesch, Reinhold (1962) “gut”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volumes 1: A – O, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 359

## Romansch
### Noun

gut m (plural guts)
* drop

## Salar
### Etymology

Cognate to Azerbaijani qurd, Turkish kurt, kurtçuk, Turkmen gūrt, etc.

### Pronunciation

* (Ili, Xinjiang, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA: /qut(ʰ)/
* (Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA: /qʰut(ʰ)/

### Noun

gut
* bug
* worm

### References

* Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “gut”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎, Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, pages 109-110
* Dwyer, Arienne M. (2007) “gut”, in Salar: A Study in Inner Asian Language Contact Processes: Part I: Phonology‎, 1st edition, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 118
* 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985) “qut”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎, Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 121
* 马伟 (Ma Wei), 朝克 (Chao Ke) (2016) “qut”, in 濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages ​​- Salar Language Studies], 青海 (Qinghai): 国家社会科学基金项目 (National Social Science Foundation Project), page 265

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English good.

### Adverb

gut
* well

#### Related terms

* gutpela
* nogut

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /ɡɨ̞t/
* (South Wales) IPA: /ɡɪt/

### Noun

gut
* Soft mutation of cut.

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.