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gut

noun
/ɡʌt/

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”).

  1. inherited from gutten
  2. derived from *ǵʰewd-✻ — “to pour”
  3. derived from *gut-✻
  4. inherited from gutt
  5. inherited from gut

Definitions

  1. The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.

  2. The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged.

    • You've developed quite a beer gut since I last met you.

  3. The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.

  4. ›+ 11 more definitions

    1. A person's emotional, visceral self.

      • I have a funny feeling in my gut.

    2. A class that is not demanding or challenging.

      • You should take Intro Astronomy: it's a gut.

    3. A narrow passage of water.

      • 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.

    4. The sac of silk taken from a silkworm when ready to spin its cocoon, for the purpose of…

      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.

    5. To eviscerate.

      • Holonym: field dress
      • The fisherman guts the fish before cooking them.
      • The lioness gutted her prey.

    6. To remove or destroy the most important parts of.

      • Fire gutted the building.
      • Congress gutted the welfare bill.

    7. To dishearten

      To dishearten; to crush (the spirits of).

      • 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.

    8. Made of gut.

      • a violin with gut strings

    9. Instinctive.

      • gut reaction

    10. A surname from German.

    11. Initialism of grand unification theory or grand unified theory.

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Derived

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 · +62 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gut. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA