narrow-gutted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more narrow-gutted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most narrow-gutted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Narrow in the beam; Not as wide as is conventional for a vessel of comparable length.
pos: adj
examples: In this case Rolf Eliasson has opted for length, although an 8'5" beam isn't excessively narrow-gutted on a 25'7” LWL.
She was a narrow-gutted, finely shaped thing (a narrow beam for her length, and typical of the period). She was once a beautiful vessel and would have enhanced any waterfront of the period – 'Even now' the skipper had mused, looking at her with just a little affection.
It looked like a typical gyppo logging camp boat, a sad-looking thirty-two-foot hulk on its last stop before the boneyard. It was a long, narrow-gutted, low-slung thing.
gloss: Having a thin abdomen, especially when sickly or hungry.
pos: adj
examples: A round-barrelled, trussy horse of a hardy constitution will bear a dose of medicine which would be destruction to a slight and narrow-gutted one, and you should therefore be extremely cautious how you administer such quantities as you may occasionally see prescribed as physic in veterinary works, without previously ascertaining, as far as you can, the capabilities of your horse for sustaining their operation.
By changing the food one can increase or diminish the size of the abdomen: thus by feeding food containing much bulk, the shape of the narrow-gutted horse is modified; by feeding concentrated foods, such as oats, the cow-belly can be made to disappear.
An awkward and angular fellow, narrow-gutted, with wiry beard and bony face.
Inland from Aurukun, the lantern-jawed, rangy, narrow-gutted Coen police sergeant, Jim Scanlon, let us know he had been told to report our whereabouts in the Cape to the authorities in Brisbane.
A whippet's bow to his back in the tight hunch where he sat, narrow-gutted from recent deprivations, a long Riverina face.
gloss: Thin; narrow.
pos: adj
examples: It is a narrow-gutted piece of country, any way: there are only about thirty miles dividing the east coast from the west coast at certain points, and the Kaipara Harbour and Wairoa River will always be deadly competitors with any line of railway constructed between Whangarei and Dargaville.
In one of the main streets of the city of Glasgow there reaches to the sky as loftily as the local municipal laws allow, a narrow-gutted building of red stone.
This was a narrow-gutted twister several miles long and no place for the faint-hearted, especially when wind and tide were fighting as they were this day.
gloss: Cheap and/or minimal.
pos: adj
examples: I thought, however, that Dr. Clarke made it appear, as plain as the nose in your face, that the great scholar who was absent was the enemy of Christendom; that such Popish notions as his ought not to be tolerated; and that, in short, the sooner he gave up his professorship the better, if he had arrived at these years, and did not know what true, sound, round-about Christianity was; that it embraced all people, nations, and languages, upon the face of the earth; and, scorning the little paltry, narrow-gutted gate belonging to the priests, bolted, like a giant, plump out of the spacious portals of the temple at once; that this was your "pure religion, and undefiled;" and that for the Bible to take a travelling companion, by way of corrective, was mere Gallimatia, and a disgrace to common sense.
Though this book has scholarly pretensions in the sense that it is solidly grounded in far-flung archival materials, my aim has been to produce a work for the educated general reader, not a narrow-gutted monograph.
Keri Hulme's brief and more "oblique" review of Wedde's and McQueen's anthology (pp. 301-305) expresses appreciation for the offering of a translation of Maori poetry("a prosaic rendition of silent words") in the anthology and its range of poetry which makes this an authoritative anthology of "so much richness, fatness, sheer power in it, that, beside it, all the former anthologies look narrow-gutted and mean."
The aircraft began to take off in the middle of the afternoon, for various points along the fault where the wrecked villages lay; Dicken's assignment was Jehuddin, a narrow-gutted little town under the hills.
In addition, the private beach which had been advertised turned out to be a narrow-gutted oil-covered inlet into the cliffs filled with small boulders on which it would be quite impossible to lie or even sit down in the sun, and, as Oek gad discovered while searching round the place for any signs of who it was who had killed Caceolari, it could only be reached by a hair-raising climb down a narrow path overhanging the cliff.
gloss: Overly frugal; stingy.
pos: adj
examples: They replied trade we should not take notice of the that their narrow-gutted employer would not allow them to make more than eight hours per day, because because he always charged full time for them to his customers, which they could prove.
'No,' said he. 'He didn't bother. He just disliked them. There's a difference. Because, as he said, the Tommies are getting just as priggish and half-balled and narrow-gutted. It's the fate of mankind, to go that way.'
And there's no use of me denyin ' the fact that the country hereabouts is uninvitin ' for a boy deservin ' of somethin ' better'n the narrow-gutted existence that folks are obliged to live in these parts.
Pansy didn't think much of the inky-fingered young men with spectacles who slaved over the desks at the railway station, and in the warehouses or the various narrow-gutted diamond buyers' offices.
He was tired of fighting the stupidity of the public, of which the queasiness of this narrow-gutted landlord was only a single example.
gloss: Small-minded; conventional and unadventurous;
pos: adj
examples: But nothing is accidental in Final Alice: the jokes are all so musical and composed with such mastery as to silence narrow-querulousness about content.
Brian was deeply insulted, not only by the tenor of the attack, but also by the narrow-gutted assumption that hair longer than conventional must be dirty.
I suppose I haven't the breadth of temperament to appreciate the faults of genius: just a narrow-gutted bourgeois, I suppose.
“And you're too narrow-gutted ever to get into trouble,” Arthur responded'; 'They can spy on us all day to see if we're pulling our puddings and if we're working good or doing our “athletics” but they can't make an X-ray of our guts to find out what we're telling ourselves.'
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