gut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌt/
ipa: /ɡʊt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Forms: form: guts
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”).
Senses: glosses: The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.
examples: text: You've developed quite a beer gut since I last met you.
glosses: The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged.
glosses: The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.
examples: text: I have a funny feeling in my gut.
glosses: A person's emotional, visceral self.
examples: text: You should take Intro Astronomy: it's a gut.
glosses: A class that is not demanding or challenging.
examples: text: the Gut of Canso
text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: A narrow passage of water.
glosses: 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: sense: alimentary canal, intestine
word: alimentary canal
sense: alimentary canal, intestine
word: digestive system
sense: alimentary canal, intestine
word: guts
sense: alimentary canal, intestine
word: intestine
sense: alimentary canal, intestine
word: tharm
sense: alimentary canal, intestine
word: innards
sense: abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged
word: abdomen
sense: abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged
english: enlarged
translation: enlarged
word: beer belly
sense: abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged
english: enlarged
translation: enlarged
word: beer gut
sense: abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged
word: belly
sense: abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged
english: enlarged
translation: enlarged
word: paunch
sense: abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged
english: enlarged
translation: enlarged
word: potbelly
sense: abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged
word: stomach
sense: abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged
word: tum
sense: abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged
word: tummy
sense: intestines of an animal used to make strings
word: catgut
Derived terms: beer-gut
blind gut
bust a gut
bust one's gut
catgut
deergut
degut
double gut shot
foregut
gag a buzzard off a gut wagon
gag a dog off a gut wagon
go with one's gut
gulligut
gunt
gut barging
gut bomb
gutbomb
gut-bread
gut bread
gutbread
gutbucket
gut buster
gutbuster
gut-busting
gut check
gut-check
gut-churning
gut course
gut factor
gutfeel
gut feel
gut feeling
gut fermentation syndrome
gut flora
gutfoundered
gutful
gut hook
gutless
gutlike
gutling
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
gutstring
gutsy
gut-tie
guttocks
gutty
gut up
gutweed
gutwort
gut-wrenched
gut-wrenching
gut-wrenchingly
hate someone's guts
hindgut
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
mudgut
pinch-gut
ripgut brome
ripgut fence
roid gut
rot gut
rotgut
sac-gut
scrapegut
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