narrow-gutted

Definitions

1. 1

   Narrow in the beam

   Narrow in the beam; Not as wide as is conventional for a vessel of comparable length.

   • In this case Rolf Eliasson has opted for length, although an 8'5" beam isn't excessively narrow-gutted on a 25'7” LWL.
   • 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.
2. 2

   Having a thin abdomen, especially when sickly or hungry.

   • An awkward and angular fellow, narrow-gutted, with wiry beard and bony face.
3. 3

   Thin

   Thin; narrow.

   • 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.
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   1. 4

      Cheap and/or minimal.

      • 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.
   2. 5

      Overly frugal

      Overly frugal; stingy.

      • '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.
   3. 6

      Small-minded

      Small-minded; conventional and unadventurous;

      • 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.

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