gut
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: guts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: guts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gutting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gutted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gutted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more gut
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gut
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: You've developed quite a beer gut since I last met you.
gloss: The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A person's emotional, visceral self.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I have a funny feeling in my gut.
gloss: A class that is not demanding or challenging.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: You should take Intro Astronomy: it's a gut.
gloss: A narrow passage of water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the Gut of Canso
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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To eviscerate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Holonym: field dress
The fisherman guts the fish before cooking them.
The lioness gutted her prey.
gloss: To remove or destroy the most important parts of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Fire gutted the building.
Congress gutted the welfare bill.
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.
He gutted the kitchen, replacing an outdated scheme with a sexy mélange of mirror, lacquer, Rouge Griotte marble, and African mahogany.
gloss: To dishearten; to crush (the spirits of).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They were gutted by the court's decision.
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.
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.
gloss: Made of gut.
pos: adj
examples: a violin with gut strings
gloss: Instinctive.
pos: adj
examples: gut reaction
Related words: gutting
gutted
blood-and-guts
Derived words: 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
gutbomb
gut bomb
gut-brain axis
gutbread
gut bread
gut-bread
gutbucket
gutbuster
gut buster
gut-busting
gut-check
gut check
gut-churning
gut course
gut decision
gut factor
gutfeel
gut feel
gut feeling
gut fermentation syndrome
gut flora
gutfoundered
gutful
gut hook
gut instinct
gutless
gutlike
gutling
gut load
gutlord
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
rotgut
rot gut
sac-gut
scrapegut
split a gut
stingy 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
gut for
gut through
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