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gut

Pronunciation: /ɡʌt/

The English word “gut” has 12 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.
  2. The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged.
  3. The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.
  4. A person's emotional, visceral self.
  5. A class that is not demanding or challenging.
  6. A narrow channel, passage, or stream of water. (Compare gote.)
  7. 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.

verb

  1. To eviscerate.
  2. To remove or destroy the most important parts of.
  3. To dishearten; to crush (the spirits of).

adjective

  1. Made of gut.
  2. Instinctive.

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”).

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