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gutsy, a.|ˈgʌtsɪ|
Also gutsey, gutzy.
[f. guts (gut n. 3) + -y.]
1. Greedy, voracious. orig. Sc.
1803T. Campbell Let. 2 Mar. in W. Beattie Life & Lett. T. Campbell (1849) I. 456 A John-Bull song..to the chorus of ‘Gooseberry tarts’. Gutsy proud people—we sing songs in Scotland about her nature and love!..but here, there is no song but ‘Roast Beef’, or ‘Gooseberry Tarts’! 1829J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edin. Mag. XXV. 392 There's nae denying that maist o' them's gutsy. 1893R. L. Stevenson Catriona xxx, Ye muckle, gutsey hash, here's a Scots boot to your English hurdies. 1893–4R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words II. 350 Gutsy, gutty, gluttonous, fond of his belly. 1902Daily Chron. 27 Mar. 3/1 An inspector having got from a class that a cow was a graminiverous and a tiger a carniverous animal, went on to ask what an animal that eats everything, both grass and flesh, would be. ‘A gutsy beast,’ was the reply. 1946B. Marshall George Brown's Schooldays 23 Half a rissole was quite enough for a gutzy young sod like him.
2. Tough, spirited, courageous; possessing or requiring ‘guts’ (gut n. 1 d).
1893in Farmer & Henley Slang III. 237/2. 1936 Amer. Speech XI. 101/1 Gutsy folk do not care for much pussyfooting. 1937S. O'Faolain in John o' London's 12 Mar. 984/3 Kit Brandon is the life-story of a woman gangster, a regular tornado, a passionate, lawless ‘gutsy’ young girl from the mountains. 1951E. Coxhead One Green Bottle vii. 190 She took him up one of the horrid, gutsy little Cribin climbs. 1964Punch 9 Sept. 372/1 The following gutsy alternative. 1970New Yorker 3 Oct. 36/3 He would..sing out if a tune came along that was of his persuasion—something gutsy like ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’.
Hence ˈgutsily adv., gluttonously (1825 in Jamieson's Sc. Dict.; 1898 in E.D.D.); ˈgutsiness, (a) greediness, gluttony (1825 in Jamieson; 1898 in E.D.D.); (b) energy, spirit; courage.
1893Farmer & Henley Slang III. 237/2 Gutsiness. 1959Times 1 Apr. 5/4 Israel audiences like and admire a play if it shows the qualities they most respect: directness..‘gutsyness’. 1969Guardian 7 July 9/4 His brilliance, his intellect, his gutsiness. 1970Ibid. 31 Mar. 8/2 Tilson's work..has always been gutsily vulgar. |