gut
//ɡʌt//
Forms
- Plural
- guts
- Comparative
- more gut
- Superlative
- most gut
- present (v1)
- gut
- past (v2)
- gutted
- past participle (v3)
- gutted
- present participle
- gutting
- 3rd person singular
- guts
Definitions
1.The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.
2.The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged.(informal)
- 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.A person's emotional, visceral self.
- I have a funny feeling in my gut.
1.To eviscerate.
- The fisherman guts the fish before cooking them.
- The lioness gutted her prey.
2.To remove or destroy the most important parts of.
- He gutted the kitchen, replacing an outdated scheme with a sexy mélange of mirror, lacquer, Rouge Griotte marble, and African mahogany.
- Congress gutted the welfare bill.
3.To dishearten; to crush (the spirits of).
- They were gutted by the court's decision.
- 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.
- 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.
1.Made of gut.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3741
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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.