gutful

noun

Etymology

From gut + -ful.

  1. inherited from gutten
  2. derived from *ǵʰewd- — “to pour
  3. derived from *gut-
  4. inherited from gutt
  5. inherited from gut
  6. suffixed as gutful — “gut + ful

Definitions

  1. As much as a gut (abdomen) will hold.

    • He drank a gutful of beer.
    • In every dark corner, fat black bin bags were bent double, throwing up gutfuls of old clothes.
    • Several gutfuls of alcoholic laughter-breath rolled around the room.
  2. As much as one is willing to hear or experience

    As much as one is willing to hear or experience; as much as or more than one can bear; too much; a surfeit.

    • I've had a gutful of politics lately.
    • By Monday afternoon we were finished - loadwise, physically, mentally, you name it, we'd had a gutful of it.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gutful. 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