gutn.

Brit.

/ɡʌt/, U.S.

/ɡət/

Forms: Old English plural guttas, Middle English gotte, Middle English–1600s gutte, Middle English gowt, gute, Middle English–1700s gutt, Middle English– gut.

Etymology: Old English guttas strong masculine plural; the vowel seems to point to a prehistoric type *guttu- ( < pre-Germanic *ghudnú- ), < the root of Gothic giutan , Old High German gioȥȥan (Gothic gieszen ), Old English géotan to pour: see yet v. 1a(a).

1. collective plural.

a. The contents of the abdominal cavity; the bowels, entrails. Formerly, but not now, in dignified use with reference to humans.†In biblical language sometimes figurative = ‘bowels’, ‘inward parts’.

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the world > life > the body > internal organs > [noun]

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the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > [noun] > that which is within > contents > substantial

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a1000 O.E. Gloss. 198 in Mone's Quellen u. Forschungen (1830) 333 Viscerum receptacula, guttas, innoþas, and fencgas [read and-fencgas].

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 10806 On him smot..In aboute þe fondement..& so vp toward þe gottes.

a1300 E.E. Psalter l. 12 Clene hert make in me, God, and trewe, And right gaste in mi guttes newe.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. vii. 398 Hus guttes gonne godely as two gredy sowes.

a1400 K. Alis. 4469 Of some theo gottes hongyn oute.

c1440 Anc. Cookery in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 440 Take the gottes of the goose..and scrape hom clene.

1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. xcvii. 77 They caste on hym the guttes of reyghes and of fissh.

1580 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David xxxi. v My eyes, my guts, yea my soule, grief doth wast.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 262 Falstalffe you carried your guts away..nimbly.

a1600 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems v. 11 My guttis ar grippit so with grief, It eitis me vp in yre.

1664 King Charles II in J. M. Cartwright Madame (1894) 176 Poor Oneale..died this afternoon of an ulser in his gutts.

1692 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. 26 The Peristaltick motion of the guts.

1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 286 The more acrid any Purge is, the more it irritates the Guts.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 633 Yet he had not pierced his guts: So his wounds were not mortal.

1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane ii. 58 (note) They..are..foul feeders, many of them greedily devouring the raw guts of fowls.

1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. i. 86 On the one side he placed the flesh and guts..on the other, he put the bones enveloped in fat.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxvi. 215 Half the guts, the spleen, and the pluck of my seal.

b. Phrases. †to have one's guts about one's ears (a hyperbolical threat); †(to grieve) to the guts: deeply, to the very soul; to have (a person's) guts for garters (a hyperbolical threat); to hate (a person's) guts: to dislike (a person) intensely; to sweat (also work) one's guts out: to work extremely hard.

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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten [verb (intransitive)] > hyperbolical threats

to have (a person's) guts for gartersa1592

society > occupation and work > working > [verb (intransitive)] > work hard or toil

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to the boneOE

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drevyll?1518

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to tug at the (an) oar1612

to stand to it1632

rudge1676

slave1707

to work like a beaver1741

to hold (also keep, bring, put) one's nose to the grindstone1828

to feague it away1829

to work like a nigger1836

delve1838

slave1852

leather1863

to sweat one's guts out1890

hunker1903

to sweat (also work) one's guts out1932

to eat (also work) like a horse1937

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to work like a drover's dog1952

to get one's nose down (to)1962

a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) iii. sig. F^v Ile make garters of thy guttes, Thou villaine.

1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love iv. iii. sig. H4^v Sir, I will garter my hose with your guttes.

1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) III. 108 They said our guts should be about our ears if we did not vote it.

1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 140 It griev'd him to the Guts, that they..Should offer such inhumane wrong.

1714 J. Walker Attempt Acct. Sufferings Clergy Church of Eng. ii. 341/2 He hoped to have the Parson's Guts to Garter his Hose with.

1918 H. V. O'Brien Diary 8 July in Wine, Women & War (1926) 140 R— decided on different way, so did it all over again. Great boy, R—. Hate his guts!

1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby i. 9 There were men at New Haven who had hated his guts.

1930 W. S. Maugham Breadwinner ii. 101 God knows, it's been an uphill job, but I've done my best. I've just sweated my guts out.

1932 N. Coward Words & Music in Play Parade (1939) II. 111 We have to work our guts out...We have to hop and bustle.

1933 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 698 I'll 'ave yer guts fer garters.

1935 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood Dog beneath Skin ii. v One o' these dys I'll 'ave 'is guts fer garters.

1936 N. Coward To-night at 8.30 II. 31 You know perfectly well I hate Freda's guts.

1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier ii. 35 It is brought home to you, at least while you are watching, that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.

1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock vii. viii. 338 He hates her guts.

1945 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 22 May in Performing Flea (1953) 126 The entire personnel of the cast sweat their guts out..and then the studio discovers that it doesn't own the rights to the novel.

1959 Listener 24 Sept. 495/3 Those who (to use a colloquial phrase that does justice to feelings, especially in war time) ‘hated his guts’.

1967 Guardian 29 Dec. 6/3 Resentment in Service quarters is now focusing on Mr Healey... But those who are demanding his guts for garters are making a mistake.

c. transferred. The inside, internal fittings, contents of anything. Also figurative (slang or colloquial) substantial contents, ‘something in’ a thing; so †to have guts in one's brains.

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the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > [noun] > that which is within > contents

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1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 246 Truly that is no Hard matter for a man to doe That has but any guts in 's brains.

1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) v. Prol. 53 One without Guts in his Brains, whose Cockloft is unfurnish'd.

1699 T. Brown Let. 6 July in Wks. (1707) I. iii. 86 His Brother Boars I presume will have more Guts in their Brains for the future, then to pick a Quarrel with such as preserve their Lives.

1751 R. Paltock Life Peter Wilkins I. xii. 119 Well, thinks I, what if I have lost my Gourds, I have gained Experience; I will dry them next Time with the Guts in.

1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 130 The whole ‘guts’ of the ships had besides to be torn out for the passage of the shaft.

1892 R. L. Stevenson Lett. (1899) II. 276 I..can almost always get a happy day out of Marion Crawford—ce n'est pas toujours la guerre, but it's got life to it and guts, and it moves.

1897 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Guts..(Artists), ‘no guts in it’. The expression is pretty general, but it is more specially used by artists to announce their opinion that there is nothing in a picture.

d. plural. Energy, verve, staying power; courage, force of character. colloquial.Cf. dialect phr. to have neither gut nor gall (1887 in Eng. Dial. Dict.).

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the mind > emotion > courage > [noun]

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bottle1958

the mind > will > decision > constancy or steadfastness > [noun] > capacity for moral effort or endurance

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1893 J. S. Farmer Slang (at cited word) Put your guts into it..= Row the very best you can. He (or it) has no guts in him (or it) = He (or it) is a common rotter.

1900 G. Swift Somerley 85 If you have what are, at Cambridge, vulgarly but expressively called ‘guts’.

1924 W. M. Raine Troubled Waters ii. 22 It's about your size to send a skull-and-crossbones threat through the mail, but I notice you haven't the guts to sign it.

1924 R. Keable Recompence i. 9 Can't you dig me out a chap with some guts, who has learned to rough it?

1933 J. C. Powys Glastonbury Romance xxii. 713 I think, if you haven't the guts to act like a man in the matter, you ought to leave this girl alone.

1955 Times 30 Aug. 5/2 That policeman had plenty of guts. I have been informed that the policeman was not seriously hurt.

2. A particular portion of the lower alimentary canal between the pylorus and the anus; = intestine n.: often preceded by a defining adjective, the higher portion being named little, small, †subtle, the lower great, large. †fat gut (= French gras boyau, Cotgrave), the rectum (also arse-gut; right-gut: see the prefixed words). †hungry gut (see hungry adj. Compounds 2), the jejunum. Also blind gut n., the cæcum; transferred a cul-de-sac.small-gut man: see small adj. and n.² Compounds 4.

a. In singular.

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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > intestines > [noun] > portion of

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1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xlii. 158 The thyrde lytyll gutte is callyd in latyn secundo simul unum.

14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 678/11 Hic lien,..a longe gute.

c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 280 Þenne he [Ionas] lurkkes & laytes..In vche a nok of his nauel, but nowhere he fyndez No rest..bot ramelande myre, In wych gut so euer he gotz.

1486 Bk. St. Albans b vij b Putt it in a small gut of a Capon.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 228/1 Gutte, a bowell, boyau.

1722 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (ed. 2) 224 There is very much Fat about its [i.e. the rectum's] external side, for which reason it is called the Fat-Gut.

1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. ii. 620 The operator..must with his fingers conduct the gut in by the same aperture through which it came out.

1806 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. IV. 415 The harbour [of Aberdeen] lies at the bottom of the eminence on which it stands, and is a blind gut, into which the tide flows, bending in a curved form.

1830 R. Knox tr. P. A. Béclard Elements Gen. Anat. 89 He..supposes it to be absorbed by the large gut.

1883 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women (ed. 2) xi. 90 They [fæces] may lie in any part of the great gut.

1897 M. L. Hughes Mediterranean Fever iii. 153 The involvement of the large gut.

b. In plural.

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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > intestines > [noun] > portion of

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1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xlii. 158 vj pryncypall guttes, thre of theym ben subtyll..and thre aren grete.

a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 9 Skoure þo guttus with salt ichon.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 342 Next to the bag of the Stomacke, men and sheepe have the small guts, called Lactes.

1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 25 I injected into the small Guts of a Cow..a sufficient quantity of Water to fill them.

1722 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (ed. 2) 223 The third and last of the small Guts is the Ilium... The thick and great Guts are the Cæcum, Colon, and Rectum.

1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 93 A solution of this substance injected into the great guts of a dog.

c. In generalized sense.

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1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 10 34 The portion of gut was about the size of a walnut.

1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 211 The portion of gut which had been strangulated was found considerably inflamed.

1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 295 A knuckle of much congested gut.

d. Extended to the whole of the alimentary canal or its lower portion.

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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > intestines > [noun]

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c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 607 Make clene þe place also þat ye calle his gowt.

1553 N. Udall tr. T. Gemini Compend. Anat. A ii/1 The seconde portion of the gutte is called Ieiunum, or the hungry gutte, because he is euermore emptye.

1712 J. Warder True Amazons 5 [Speaking of bees.] In the hinder parts there is a Gut.

1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory ii. 395 Sheathing the rectum in cases of abrasion, and inflammation of the gut.

1836 A. Combe Physiol. Digestion i. v. 126 The pylorus..opens and allows it to pass into the gut.

1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 36 The inner germinal layer [is] the foundation of the gut or enteron.

1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. 1 137 The intestine, or gut proper, begins at the pyloric end of the stomach and ends at the cloaca.

†e. transferred. Applied to the shoots or bine of hops. Obsolete. rare. (Cf. gut v. 1b.)

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > hop-plant > parts of

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1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 38 From hop long gut, away go cut... Sharpe knife to cut, superfluous gut.

f. In machine sheep-shearing: a flexible shaft which conveys the power from an overhead source to the shearer's handpiece. Australian and New Zealand.

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1956 G. Bowen Wool Away! (ed. 2) viii. 100 The correct length of a gut is shown when, with the long and short gut connected, they hang so that the short gut swings just clear of the floor.

1965 J. S. Gunn Terminol. Shearing Industry ii. 35 The tube is a casing down which runs a flexible driving shaft known as the ‘gut’.

g. figurative. Used, chiefly attributive, of an issue, question, etc.: basic, fundamental; (also, of a reaction) instinctive and emotional rather than rational.

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the world > existence and causation > causation > basis or foundation > [adjective]

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1964 Economist 17 Oct. 261/3 For Harold Wilson it was a carefully planned campaign:..the neo-Kennedyism combined with a concentration on gut issues.

1968 Guardian 26 Sept. 10/3 The three nights of rioting that followed his murder were an immediate gut reaction.

1969 Times 22 July p. ii/3 The moon programme..was a gut issue, as even the less enthusiastic realized.

1969 Daily Tel. 14 Nov. 5/2 When we [sc. the Americans] first went into space, we had no idea how much it was going to benefit the economy. We went in as a gut reaction to the Soviet challenge.

1970 Win 15 June 4/1 There are some gut questions the pacifist must face.

1970 Win 15 June 4/1 Really, the questions are too gut for us.

1971 Listener 19 Aug. 223/2 Most people's reaction to the Oz trial and sentences has been what one might call a gut-reaction—whether of shock or satisfaction.

h. to bust (also rupture) a gut: to exert oneself, to make a great effort. colloquial.

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the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)] > make a great effort

to move (also stir) heaven and earth1580

to swelt one's heart1584

to sweat blood1911

to bust (also rupture) a gut1912

to fall over backwards1932

to bust (also break) one's balls1968

1912 Dial. Notes 3 572 Bust a gut,..to make a supreme effort. ‘Just bust a gut now and see if we can't lift this log.’

1968 C. Drummond Death & Leaping Ladies i. 23 ‘I'll be back in twenty minutes.’..‘Don't bust a gut,’ advised Miss Winkelbaum, ‘the hussies will be late.’

1970 J. Porter Rather Common Sort of Crime xiii. 154 If Mack'd been some fat, respectable, middle-aged old bastard, the cops'd've bust a gut nicking somebody fer croaking him.

1970 W. Smith Gold Mine xiii. 36 ‘Huh!’ Popeye checked his watch. ‘Two hours forty to get down, you don't reckon to rupture a gut do you?’

a. In singular and plural. Put for the belly or stomach, esp. as the seat of appetite or gluttony. Now dialect and colloquial. gut and ga' (gall) (Scottish): the whole contents of the stomach.

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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > stomach or belly > [noun]

maweOE

wombOE

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Little Mary1903

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Maconochie1919

1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. xi. 44 Thei..demeth god in-to the gorge whon heore gottus follen.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. ii. 34 Al is noȝt good to þe gost þat þe gut Askeþ.

1535 W. Tyndale in Test. W. Tracie sig. Bij Dame auarice, with as greadye a gutt..as the best.

1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. P.ii Lions..Whose greedy gutts the gnawing hoonger pricks.

c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) ii. 772 To put Scraps twice runne over, in thy half starvd gutt.

1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) i. ii. ii. ii. 67 Gluttony kills more then the sword,..this al-devouring and murdering gut.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 101 That had learn'd to govern his Tongue, his Gut, his Concupiscence; these three.

1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires iv. 58 For his own Gut he bought the stately Fish.

a1732 J. Gay Fables (1738) II. iii. 23 Here ev'ry day he cramm'd his guts.

1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 52 Gut an' ga' she keest wi' breakings strange.

1790 A. Wilson Poems 65 An Inn's thy Temple, and thy God's thy guts.

b. In plural. A corpulent or gluttonous person.

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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [noun] > gluttony > glutton

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Phaeacian?1614

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gorger1817

polyphagist1819

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stuff-guts1875

chowhound1917

gannet1929

Billy Bunter1939

guzzle-guts1959

garbage can1963

foodaholic1965

1550 T. Lever Serm. Thyrd Sondaye in Lente (new ed.) sig. B.iii Disceitful Merchauntes, couetous greedyguttes, and ambicious prollers, whiche canne neuer haue ynough.]

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 231 Thou clay braind guts .

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Gutts, a very fat, gross Person.

1868 Ld. Lytton Orval in New Poems II. 286 March! march, old guts! This is a lazy lord.

1896 G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-bk. Guts, a glutton.

1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 168 The unfortunate fat boy..is known as..guts, [etc.].

4. The intestines of animals employed for various purposes.

a. In plural. As food: = offal n. and adj. Cf. to carry guts to a bear at bear n.¹ Phrases 5.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > pluck, offal, or tripe

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paunch1512

purtenance1530

pertinence1535

chawdron1578

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gut?1602

pluck1611

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fry1847

chitling1869

small goods1874

black tripe1937

variety meat1942

?1602 Narcissus (MS Bodl. Rawl. poet. 212) (1893) 284 O thou that pickest wisdome out of guttes.

1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cxxxv. 124 Wee, the Kings Officers, crys the Fellow that carrys Guts to the Bears.

b. As an envelope for black puddings, sausages, etc.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > pluck, offal, or tripe > intestines used as envelope

gut1598

pudding gut1598

1598 tr. G. de Rosselli Epulario iij b Take guts well washed and made clean, and fill them with the meat.

1819 Sporting Mag. 5 32 In Suffolk, black puddings made in guts are called links.

c. For making violin strings; (hence in †plural) the strings themselves (obsolete). In modern use in singular as the name of a material. Cf. catgut n.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > violin > strings of

gut1611

fiddle-string1728

violin string1841

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other animal raw materials > [noun] > gut

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1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. H2^v Heere take this viall, runne vpon the guts, And end thy quarrell singing.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §280 A Viall should haue..the Strings of Guts mounted vpon a Bridge, as in Ordinary Vialls.

a1774 O. Goldsmith Surv. Exper. Philos. (1776) II. 190 On this side [of the Eolian lyre] are seven strings of very fine gut.

1883 [see gut-spinning n. at Compounds 1c].

d. In singular. The silken fibre obtained from the intestines of the silkworm. (In full silkworm gut, silk-gut.) Chiefly used in the making of fishing tackle.The worm, when about to spin, is killed and put into vinegar, then pulled in two, and the ‘gut’ is drawn out to a thin thread and dried.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other animal raw materials > [noun] > gut > types of

catgut1599

whale-guts1780

silkworm gut1833

gut1834

whipcord1880

1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 16 Where I procured some hanks of gut..My fishing companions did not know that each filum of gut is a drawn-out silkworm just before it is about to weave its cocoon.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1115 Silkworm gut, for angling.

1872 F. Francis Bk. Angling (ed. 3) xiii. 428 Tying threads of gut together for lines.

1875 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 12) i. v. ii. §1. 309 It is generally made of pieces of gut, knotted together, and altogether comprising a length of from three to eight feet.

1899 Speaker 9 Sept. 260/2 At every cast the gut had fallen upon the water like a streak of lightning.

5. A narrow passage.

a. A channel or run of water, a branch of a stream; a sound, strait.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > watercourse or channel

runeOE

sitchOE

pipeOE

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guttera1300

siket1300

sikec1330

watergate1368

gole?a1400

gotea1400

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aa1430

trough1513

guta1552

race1570

lode1572

canala1576

ditch1589

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leam1601

dike1616

runlet1630

stell1651

nullah1656

course1665

drain1700

lade1706

droke1772

regimen1797

draught1807

adit1808

sluit1818

thalweg1831

runway1874

the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > channel > [noun] > strait or narrow channel

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guta1552

distrait1562

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Propontis1689

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tickle1770

rigolet1771

khal1903

a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) II. 13 Ethelwolde, Abbate of Abbingdon..did clerely renovate and augmentid this Abbay, digging and caussing a Gut to cum out of Isis by force to serve and purge thoffices of thabbay.

1587 Harl. MS. 167 lf. 104 We riding (on ship) in a narrow gutt, the place yealding no better.

a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) 9 The gutt of sea being here but narrow.

1703 J. Logan in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1870) IX. 223 I now design to keep her floating in a dock or gut.

1767 Bartram's Jrnl. 61 in W. Stork Acct. E. Florida (ed. 2) Near the Store was a deep gut with a middling stream of water, which headed about a quarter of a mile up in the pine-lands.

1768 A. Dalrymple in Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 395 These banks are..often..divided by a narrow gut, without bottom.

1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. xvi. 299 A privateer..came up with her in the middle of the gut, between Tariffa and Tangier, and there gave her one broadside, which directly sunk her.

1855 B. Taylor At Home & Abroad (1880) 1st Ser. xxii. 271 A gut between the rocks..conducts to the sea.

1887 T. N. Page in Scribner's Mag. 1 414/2 The trail..terminated..in a gut of the swamp.

b. As a local designation; e.g. the Gut of Canso, the Gut of Gibraltar; also, a street in Valletta, Malta. At Oxford and Cambridge: the Gut: a bend of the river in the racing-course.

ΚΠ

1716 B. Church Entertaining Passages Philip's War ii. 113 They had orders to go directly for Port Royal Gut.

1746 Acct. French Settlem. N. Amer. 9 There are three ways of getting into this great river:..the third is thro' the Gut of Canseau.

1770 G. Washington Writings (1889) II. 316 The Old Town Gut was so high as to wet us in crossing it.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §102 The seamen thought it not safe to go into the Gut that night,..that the entrance or exit from the Gut might be impracticable or dangerous.

1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer I. v. 160 We could not..get out of the Gut of Gibraltar.

1862 H. Kingsley Ravenshoe I. xiv. 173 Pembroke had won the fours, very much in consequence of Worcester having gone round the flag, and on being made to row again, of fouling them in the gut.

1889 Christ's Coll. Mag. 77 The third night Queens' fell an easy prey in the Gut.

1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 89 The Gut, a notorious street in Malta.

1970 ‘Zeno’ Grab iii. 25 Strait Street, Valetta, better known as the Gut, the centre of Malta's red light district.

1970 M. Butterworth Vanishing Act x. 108 Mosta dome and the Città Notabile, the trashy souvenir shops of Kingsway..and the honky tonk dives of the Gut.

c. On land: a narrow passage between two declivities; (hence) a narrow passage or lane of any kind.

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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, passage, or means of access to a place > [noun] > through hills or difficult ground

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pacec1330

close?a1400

destrayt1481

gate1601

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passc1650

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ghat1698

mountain pass1707

bealach1794

ca1795

poort1834

Passover1839

droke1848

gateway1884

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 188 North of it, in a gut of the hill was the fish-poole of Siloe.

a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 132 We enter'd into a narrow Gut, between two steep Rocky Mountains.

1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. vii. 126 Before you arrived at these, you passed a narrow gut between two stone terrasses, that rose above your head.

1809 N. Pinkney Trav. South of France 256 A stony channel or gut which was..cut out to ease the ascent.

1873 Sat. Rev. 5 Apr. 447/2 The prospective widening of the narrow gut of Whitehall.

1893 R. Kipling in E. Gosse Quest. at Issue 261 A hundred fires sparkle in the gut of the pass.

1896 Daily News 20 July 7/3 The narrow valley gut of old Knightsbridge will be widened.

1896 Daily News 26 Dec. 3/2 The signal-box in this narrow gut of traffic.

a. †A gutter along the eaves of a house (obsolete); dialect. The eaves (of a stack).

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > gutter

gutter1355

gut1703

launder1891

gutter-way1908

1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 211 Guts to save Water under the Eves of a House.

1855 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. II. (Gloss.) 723/2 Gut (Essex), the eaves of a stack.

†b. An outflow. Cf. gout n.² Obsolete.

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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [noun] > that which flows

brook?c1225

gotea1400

goutc1400

gut1567

fluence?1611

flow1802

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xi. f. 137^v His head too put Full vnderneathe the foming spowt where greatest was the gut.

7. (See quot. 1860-4.)

ΚΠ

1860–4 Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) Gut, a term used in parts of Scotland for a sash bar.

Compounds

C1. General attributive and objective.

gut-dresser n.

ΚΠ

1852 C. Morfit Art of Tanning, Currying, & Leather-dressing (1853) 536 The workshop of the gut-dresser.

gut-fat n.

ΚΠ

1848 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1847 527 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (30th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 54) VI The slaughterers formerly got the gut fat for the whole of the labor thus described.

1895 Daily News 13 Dec. 8/1 Weights of fat, gut-fat, and trimmings.

gut-link n.

ΚΠ

1864 J. C. Atkinson Stanton Grange 173 Re-tie every knot, the same way as you tie your gut-links.

gut-rope n.

ΚΠ

1847 A. C. Smeaton Builder's Pocket Man. (new ed.) 205 Balistæ, catapultæ, and scorpions, in whose frames are holes for the passage of the homotona, which are strained by gut-ropes attached to windlasses worked by hand-spikes.

gut-string n.

ΚΠ

1659 G. Torriano Florio's Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese Nérvi sonóri, gut-strings for Instruments.

a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 33 This hygroscope..is made by fastning to the upper end of a piece of gut-string..a very light index.

1892 Daily News 6 Aug. 8/6 A Manufactory of Gut-Strings requires a really experienced and pushing man.

gut-substitute n.

ΚΠ

1939 ‘G. Orwell’ Coming up for Air ii. iv. 87 Even now I could give you all the details about gut-substitute and gimp and Limerick hooks.

† gut-vein n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 99 The second is called Intestinalis or the Gut-veine.

gut-wall n.

ΚΠ

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 606 When the intestine is healthy the bacillus coli communis has little disposition to escape through the gut-wall.

guts-box n.

ΚΠ

1940 D. Thomas Portrait of Artist as Young Dog 133 He'd put his hand down in the guts-box and bring you out a rat with its neck broken clean as a match for the price of a glass of beer.

gut-dressing n.

ΚΠ

1885 A. Watt Art of Leather Manuf. 393 The art of gut-dressing.

gut-spinning n.

ΚΠ

1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 319/2 Gut-spinning is the twisting of prepared gut into cord of various diameter for various purposes—i.e. for ordinary catgut, for use in machinery, and for fiddle-strings.

gut-griping n. and adj. (also guts-griping)

ΚΠ

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. i. 18 The rotten diseases of the south, the guts griping ruptures: [etc.].

1679 J. Dryden Troilus & Cressida iv. ii. 49 The rotten diseases of the South, gut gripings, ruptures, Catarrhs; loads of gravell in the back..and the like.

1699 T. Brown tr. Erasmus Seven New Colloquies v. 43 That he might not lose a drop of this Gut-griping stuff.

gut-open adj.

ΚΠ

1935 L. MacNeice Poems 64 The town-dweller like a rabbit in a greengrocer's..Hangs by the heels gut-open against the fog.

C2.

gut-belting n. lathe or machine belting made of catgut (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875).

gut-bread n. sweetbread, pancreas.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > glands

liverOE

kidneyc1325

rys lumbard?c1390

fee14..

sweetbread1565

burr1573

gut-bread1893

miltz1909

prairie oyster1941

1893 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 Apr. 812/2 The pancreas is vulgarly termed the ‘gutbread’..and is the article which would be supplied in the great majority of cases by butchers asked for sweetbread.

† gut-bursten n. Obsolete abdominal hernia.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [noun] > hernia or rupture

herniac1386

crepaturec1400

ramex?a1425

rupture?a1425

burstenness1483

rimburst1505

ruption?1541

mollification1543

bursting1544

burstness1552

film-bursting1578

bubonocele1597

rimburstennessc1600

burstning1607

gut-bursten1607

strangulated hernia1771

hypogastrocele1811

herniation1897

sliding hernia1910

incisional hernia1912

Morgagni hernia1958

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 394 First you shal vnderstand, that the gut bursten, and flanke bursten, doth proceed both of one cause, that is to say, by meanes that the skinne, called before Peritoneum, is either sore strained, or else broken.

gut-foundered adj. (a) on the point of starvation (now dialect); †(b) affected with hernia.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [adjective] > hernia or rupture

hernious1398

limb-broken1398

film-brokea1400

burstenc1440

broken-lended1483

rimburst1558

burst1574

bursten-gutted1601

broken-bellied1634

gut-foundered1647

ruptured1723

hernial1738

herniary1753

herniated1879

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > [adjective] > hungry > starving or starved

hungryc950

ofhungeredOE

hungeredc1425

famylousc1475

forhungered1481

hunger-starvena1533

starven1546

hunger-bit1549

hunger-bitten1549

affamished1554

starved1563

starving1581

gaunted1582

famishing1587

food-sick1587

hunger-starving1592

famined1622

gut-foundered1647

hunger-starved1647

starved-gut1653

half-starved1667

clemmed1674

nushed1691

pinch-gutted1704

starve-gutted1726

clemming1773

clung1807

1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 26 I can make my self sick..with comparing the dazzeling splender wherewith our Gentle-women were embellished in some former habits, with the gut-foundred goosdome, wherewith they are now surcingled and debauched.

a1658 J. Cleveland Char. Country-comm.-man (1677) 100 The clamorous Mutiny of a Gut-foundred Garrison.

1691 J. Wilson Belphegor iii. iv Cris. But now she 'as beaten me to mash. Min. And made me mere gut-founder'd.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Gut-foundred, exceeding Hungry.

1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Gut-founder'd, diseased from the effects of hunger.

† gut-head n. Obsolete one who is stupid from over-feeding.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [noun] > gluttony > glutton

glutton?c1225

glutc1394

globberc1400

glofferc1440

gluttoner1482

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ravener1496

belly1526

golofer1529

lurcher1530

cormorant1531

flesh-fly1532

full-belly1536

belly-godc1540

flap-sauce1540

gourmander1542

gully-gut1542

locust1545

glosser1549

greedy-guts1550

hungry gut1552

belly-slave1562

fill-belly1563

grand paunch1569

belly-paunch1570

belly-swainc1571

trencher-slave1571

slapsauce1573

gorche1577

helluo1583

gormandizer1589

eat-all1598

engorger1598

guts1598

guller1604

gourmandist1607

barathrum1609

eatnell1611

snapsauce1611

Phaeacian?1614

gutling1617

overeater1621

polyphage1623

tenterbelly1628

gut-head1629

stiffgut1630

gobble-guts1632

gulist1632

polyphagian1658

fill-paunch1659

gype1662

gulchin1671

stretch-gut1673

gastrolater1694

gundy-gut1699

guttler1732

gobbler1755

trencher-hero1792

gorger1817

polyphagist1819

battenera1849

stuff-guts1875

chowhound1917

gannet1929

Billy Bunter1939

guzzle-guts1959

garbage can1963

foodaholic1965

1629 J. Gaule Distractions 328 A very Gut-head, he hath Asses' Eares direct.

gut-hook n. a coupling hook and eye for round gut belts (Knight).

gut-house n. = gutting-house at gutting n.¹ 1a.

ΚΠ

1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) I. 231 Four to carry from gut-house to curing-house.

gut-led adj. (perhaps) ruled by one's appetite.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [adjective] > gluttonous

freckc950

egernec1200

gluttonous1340

glutterous1382

lecherous1480

pampereda1529

glutton1532

draffsacked1548

gourmand1557

pampering1562

guttish1567

ingluvious1569

belly-fed1574

lurching1577

gulling1579

lickerous-mouthed1579

gully-gut1582

gormandizing1596

belly-devout1599

guttling1633

helluous1641

gulous1657

belly-proud1675

gut-led1682

gulligutted1694

poke pudding1705

ungodly1746

ventripotent1823

ventripotential1824

guttlesome1861

1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin iv. 227 Nor was it Reason that the gut-led Fops Should spend their Tongues, who could not use their Chops.

gut-length n. a length of silkworm gut.

† gut-matter n. Obsolete something pertaining to bodily nourishment or appetite.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > [noun]

meateOE

eatOE

foodOE

fodderOE

dietc1230

gista1290

victual1303

victualsa1375

preya1382

feedinga1398

pasturea1398

viancea1400

viandsc1400

livingc1405

meatingc1425

vitalyc1440

vianda1450

cates1461

vivers1536

viandry1542

viander1543

gut-matter1549

peck1567

belly-cheer1579

appast1580

manchet1583

chat1584

belly-metal1590

repasture1598

cibaries1599

belly-timber1607

belly-cheat1608

peckage1610

victuallage1622

keeping1644

vivresa1650

crib1652

prog1655

grub1659

beef1661

fooding1663

teething1673

eatablea1687

sunket1686

yam1788

chow-chow1795

keep1801

feed1818

grubbing1819

patter1824

ninyam1826

nyam1828

grubbery1831

tack1834

kai1845

mungaree1846

scoff1846

foodstuff1847

chuck1850

muckamuck1852

tuck1857

tucker1858

hash1865

nosh1873

jock1879

cake flour1881

chow1886

nosebag1888

stodge1890

food aid1900

tackle1900

munga1907

scarf1932

grubber1959

1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Cor. xi. f. xxxii At this souper is represented the misterie of christian concorde, no bealy, nor gut matter.

† gut-monger n. Obsolete one whose chief concern is his ‘gut’ or belly.

ΚΠ

1655 R. Younge Blemish of Govt. 4 These drunken drones, these gut-mongers.

† gut-pudding n. Obsolete a sausage.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > sausage > [noun]

pudding1287

saucister1347

sausage14..

sauserling1475

pota1500

gigot1553

isingc1560

gut-pudding1697

small goods1716

jegget1736

German duck1785

pud1828

dog1891

Zepp1915

Zeppelin1915

wors1923

snag1941

1697 Verdicts Virg. & Homer v. 18 Homer compares Ulysses turning in his bed,..to a Gut-pudding or Sawsage broyling on a Gridiron.

1722 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (ed. 2) 12 Allentoies..in many Brutes is in the Shape of a Gut-Pudding.

gut-rot n. colloquial unwholesome or unpalatable liquor or food (cf. rotgut n. and adj.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [noun] > unwholesome or unpalatable food

strange flesha1616

gut-rot1916

junk1948

junk food1952

the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > types or qualities of intoxicating liquor > [noun] > unwholesome

sour swig1548

rotgut1632

stinkibus1707

whistle-belly-vengeance1861

gut-rot1916

1916 A. H. Macklin in A. Lansing Endurance (1959) v. vi. 217 ‘Gut Rot, 1916’..served only to turn most of us teetotallers for life.

1938 S. Beckett Murphy 83 The customer..was paying for his gutrot ten times what it cost to produce.

1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 33 Gutrot, unhealthy-looking food or strong drink.

1965 F. Sargeson Mem. Peon ii. 32 The garish-looking sweet stuff he made his living from... ‘I make a dishonest living by trading in gutrot.’

guts-ache n. colloquial = stomach-ache n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in stomach or bowels

womb achea1398

gnawing1398

torsionc1425

colicc1440

frettingc1440

the wormc1500

wringc1500

griping1526

wresting?1543

wringing?1550

bellyache1552

torment1578

colic passion1586

wind-colic1593

belly-thrawe1595

belly-grinding1597

fret1600

gripe1601

wrenching1607

mulligrubsa1625

bellywarka1652

torminaa1655

efferation1684

stomach-ache1763

gastrodynia1804

guts-ache1818

stony colic1822

wame-ill1829

gastralgia1834

tummy ache1926

1818 J. Keats Let. 13 July (1958) I. 324 Cant!..It is enough to give a spirit the guts-ache.

1934 E. Blunden Mind's Eye 145 Don't eat that, Jack; it'll give you the Guts'-Ache.

1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) vi. 89 ‘Ar,’ Launce said contemptuously. ‘You got a guts-ache or you're coming out in boils.’

gut-scraper n. (a humorous or derisive term for) a violin-player.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > violin-player

violon1552

violin1667

violinistc1670

gut-scraper1707

violin-player1797

catgut-scraper1806

violan1850

1707 in H. Playford Wit & Mirth (new ed.) III. 167 Strike up drowsie Gut-Scrapers.

?a1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 203 Her charms had struck a sturdy Caird, As weell as poor Gutscraper.

gut-scrapery n. an establishment where guts are scraped and cleaned.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific jobs are done > [noun] > others

cutting room1700

pearl fishery1702

refinery1716

gin house1796

dressing shed1802

ginning house1819

boring-mill1833

sorting office1851

gut-scrapery1854

conditioning house1858

packery1861

washery1875

try-house1891

wet room1901

pump-out1935

1854 Q. Rev. 95 282 Triperies, bone-boiling-houses, gut-scraperies.

† gut-seam n. Scottish Obsolete fat of the intestines, lard.

ΚΠ

1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall iv. sig. B2^v The Greke and Romane did burne their dead..the Indean with Got-seame did besmeare.

gut-shoot v. slang transitive to shoot in the guts.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > fire (a gun) [verb (transitive)] > shoot (a person or thing) > in specific part

shin1819

gut-shoot1878

1878 C. Hallock Amer. Club List & Sportsman's Gloss. p. v Gut-shot, hit in the belly; wounded, but not disabled.

1935 E. Hemingway Green Hills Afr. (1936) ii. iii. 103 I'm afraid I gut-shot him.

1960 B. Crump Good Keen Man 33 He came to the door and shouted into the frosty dark that he'd gut-shoot the first of us to come near the hut.

gut-shot n. and adj.

ΚΠ

1935 E. Hemingway Green Hills Afr. (1936) ii. iii. 114 It looked, now, like a gut shot or one through the paunch.

1960 B. Crump Good Keen Man 50 Phillip was as slow as a gut-shot pig and started yelling as soon as he lost sight of me through the bush.

gut-vexer n. = gut-scraper n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > fiddler

fiddlera1100

gigoura1300

minikin tickler1607

scraper1611

gut-vexer1640

rosin-the-bow1767

fiddle1773

scrape-gut1837

bosh-man1846

bosh-faker1859

bosh-killer1935

1640 Wizard (MS. play) in R. Nares Gloss. Get out of my sight, you unlucky gut-vexers.

gut-way n. (perhaps) a passage over a gut or watercourse.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > causeway across water or bog

causeyc1300

causewayc1440

dike1480

dam1812

gut-way1898

1898 Westm. Gaz. 24 June 51 The standards were 25 ft. long at the ‘gutway’.

gut-weed n. Sonchus arvensis (Britten & Holland Plant-n. 1879).

† gut-worm n. Obsolete an intestinal worm.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [noun] > member of (worm) > parasitic or harmful > intestinal

wormc1000

maw-worm1582

gut-worm1658

cavitary1835

helminth1852

1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1106 The Arabians call them Emicar..the Germans Spulworm, Bauchworm, the English Gutworm.

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U.S. slang. A (university) course which is unchallenging or requires little work. Frequently attributive, in gut class, gut course.

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society > education > teaching > means of teaching > [noun] > class or course > types of

summer session1594

evening class1762

summer school1793

training course1822

shop class1844

elective1850

optional1855

night class1870

correspondence class1876

Chautauqua1884

correspondence course1902

gut1902

holiday course1906

shop1912

pud1917

training seminar1917

film school1929

day school1931

refresher1939

farm shop1941

survey course1941

weekend course1944

crash programme1947

sandwich course1955

thick sandwich1962

module1966

bird course1975

1902 Boston Sunday Globe (Electronic text) 21 Dec. An easy course is a ‘gut’.

1940 Barnard Bull. (Barnard Coll., Columbia Univ.) 15 Nov. 2/2 Someone told us music was a gut course.

1989 M. Moffatt Coming of Age in New Jersey vii. 285 A gut..was a guaranteed A or B in exchange for almost no work.

2006 New Yorker 16 Jan. 50/1 He..had his fair share of gut classes—nutrition, career planning, personal finance, and driver ed.

Draft additions June 2013

gut check n. North American (originally Sport) (a) a challenging situation or event which tests one's strength of will; (b) an instance of assessing one's feelings regarding a course of action, typically intended to reconfirm one's enthusiasm or resolve.

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1963 San Antonio (Texas) Light 13 Nov. 36/5 The tough games are gut-checks... You have to decide how hard you want to win.

1971 Port Angeles (Washington) Evening News 31 Oct. 8/2 We just took a gut check at half time and came back.

1985 Philadelphia Inquirer 10 Dec. e1 I think it's time for some of us to take a gut check and see if we really want it or if we're just going through the motions.

1992 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Nexis) 20 May 8 b May is the month that determines whether crops will be above or below average... And so far, the gut-check is testing the wills of the state's 80,000 farmers.

2009 M. Cochrane Girl who threw Butterflies iv. 34 When a pitcher was in a jam, when things looked bad, the bases loaded, say, nobody out, late in the game, when the pressure was on, that was a gut check.

2009 R. Wolffe Renegade ii. 54 It was time for a gut check after all the professional advice. Michelle and Barack approached the conversation coolly.

Draft additions December 2012

gut flora n. = intestinal flora n. at intestinal adj. Additions.

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the world > life > biology > organism > micro-organism > [noun] > specific type of

intestinal flora1893

gut flora1936

superbug1959

pathotype1961

methylotroph1972

pathovar1975

1936 H. L. Sweetman Biol. Control Insects iii. 46 The gut flora especially is extremely rich, both in variety of species and abundance of individuals.

1988 G. Palmer Politics of Breastfeeding iii. 47 A breastfed baby's intestine will have a different acid/alkali balance from that of the artificially fed infant and this will affect the gut flora.

2011 Independent (Nexis) 3 May 20 Lean people are likely to have a more diverse community of gut flora compared to obese individuals.

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单词	gut
释义	gutn. Brit. /ɡʌt/, U.S. /ɡət/ Forms: Old English plural guttas, Middle English gotte, Middle English–1600s gutte, Middle English gowt, gute, Middle English–1700s gutt, Middle English– gut. Etymology: Old English guttas strong masculine plural; the vowel seems to point to a prehistoric type guttu- ( < pre-Germanic ghudnú- ), < the root of Gothic giutan , Old High German gioȥȥan (Gothic gieszen ), Old English géotan to pour: see yet v. 1a(a). 1. collective plural. a. The contents of the abdominal cavity; the bowels, entrails. Formerly, but not now, in dignified use with reference to humans.†In biblical language sometimes figurative = ‘bowels’, ‘inward parts’. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > internal organs > [noun] innethc888 guta1000 inwardc1000 inwarda1300 entrailc1330 innerera1340 entraila1382 inwardness1388 bowelc1440 paunch?c1475 umbles1536 parts entire1596 inmeat1616 in-parta1629 internalsa1629 giblet1647 viscera1651 pluck1711 viscus1728 inside1741 trollibags1824 innards1825 interior1835 splanchnology1842 work1884 the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > [noun] > that which is within > contents > substantial guta1000 a1000 O.E. Gloss. 198 in Mone's Quellen u. Forschungen (1830) 333 Viscerum receptacula, guttas, innoþas, and fencgas [read and-fencgas]. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 10806 On him smot..In aboute þe fondement..& so vp toward þe gottes. a1300 E.E. Psalter l. 12 Clene hert make in me, God, and trewe, And right gaste in mi guttes newe. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. vii. 398 Hus guttes gonne godely as two gredy sowes. a1400 K. Alis. 4469 Of some theo gottes hongyn oute. c1440 Anc. Cookery in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 440 Take the gottes of the goose..and scrape hom clene. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. xcvii. 77 They caste on hym the guttes of reyghes and of fissh. 1580 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David xxxi. v My eyes, my guts, yea my soule, grief doth wast. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 262 Falstalffe you carried your guts away..nimbly. a1600 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems v. 11 My guttis ar grippit so with grief, It eitis me vp in yre. 1664 King Charles II in J. M. Cartwright Madame (1894) 176 Poor Oneale..died this afternoon of an ulser in his gutts. 1692 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. 26 The Peristaltick motion of the guts. 1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 286 The more acrid any Purge is, the more it irritates the Guts. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 633 Yet he had not pierced his guts: So his wounds were not mortal. 1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane ii. 58 (note) They..are..foul feeders, many of them greedily devouring the raw guts of fowls. 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. i. 86 On the one side he placed the flesh and guts..on the other, he put the bones enveloped in fat. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxvi. 215 Half the guts, the spleen, and the pluck of my seal. b. Phrases. †to have one's guts about one's ears (a hyperbolical threat); †(to grieve) to the guts: deeply, to the very soul; to have (a person's) guts for garters (a hyperbolical threat); to hate (a person's) guts: to dislike (a person) intensely; to sweat (also work) one's guts out: to work extremely hard. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten [verb (intransitive)] > hyperbolical threats to have (a person's) guts for gartersa1592 society > occupation and work > working > [verb (intransitive)] > work hard or toil workeOE swingc1000 to the boneOE labourc1390 toilc1400 drevyll?1518 drudge1548 droy1576 droil1591 to tug at the (an) oar1612 to stand to it1632 rudge1676 slave1707 to work like a beaver1741 to hold (also keep, bring, put) one's nose to the grindstone1828 to feague it away1829 to work like a nigger1836 delve1838 slave1852 leather1863 to sweat one's guts out1890 hunker1903 to sweat (also work) one's guts out1932 to eat (also work) like a horse1937 beaver1946 to work like a drover's dog1952 to get one's nose down (to)1962 a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) iii. sig. F^v Ile make garters of thy guttes, Thou villaine. 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love iv. iii. sig. H4^v Sir, I will garter my hose with your guttes. 1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) III. 108 They said our guts should be about our ears if we did not vote it. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 140 It griev'd him to the Guts, that they..Should offer such inhumane wrong. 1714 J. Walker Attempt Acct. Sufferings Clergy Church of Eng. ii. 341/2 He hoped to have the Parson's Guts to Garter his Hose with. 1918 H. V. O'Brien Diary 8 July in Wine, Women & War (1926) 140 R— decided on different way, so did it all over again. Great boy, R—. Hate his guts! 1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby i. 9 There were men at New Haven who had hated his guts. 1930 W. S. Maugham Breadwinner ii. 101 God knows, it's been an uphill job, but I've done my best. I've just sweated my guts out. 1932 N. Coward Words & Music in Play Parade (1939) II. 111 We have to work our guts out...We have to hop and bustle. 1933 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 698 I'll 'ave yer guts fer garters. 1935 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood Dog beneath Skin ii. v One o' these dys I'll 'ave 'is guts fer garters. 1936 N. Coward To-night at 8.30 II. 31 You know perfectly well I hate Freda's guts. 1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier ii. 35 It is brought home to you, at least while you are watching, that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior. 1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock vii. viii. 338 He hates her guts. 1945 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 22 May in Performing Flea (1953) 126 The entire personnel of the cast sweat their guts out..and then the studio discovers that it doesn't own the rights to the novel. 1959 Listener 24 Sept. 495/3 Those who (to use a colloquial phrase that does justice to feelings, especially in war time) ‘hated his guts’. 1967 Guardian 29 Dec. 6/3 Resentment in Service quarters is now focusing on Mr Healey... But those who are demanding his guts for garters are making a mistake. c. transferred. The inside, internal fittings, contents of anything. Also figurative (slang or colloquial) substantial contents, ‘something in’ a thing; so †to have guts in one's brains. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > [noun] > that which is within > contents liningc1430 recluse?1440 content1526 supellex1553 furniture1612 gut1663 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 246 Truly that is no Hard matter for a man to doe That has but any guts in 's brains. 1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) v. Prol. 53 One without Guts in his Brains, whose Cockloft is unfurnish'd. 1699 T. Brown Let. 6 July in Wks. (1707) I. iii. 86 His Brother Boars I presume will have more Guts in their Brains for the future, then to pick a Quarrel with such as preserve their Lives. 1751 R. Paltock Life Peter Wilkins I. xii. 119 Well, thinks I, what if I have lost my Gourds, I have gained Experience; I will dry them next Time with the Guts in. 1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 130 The whole ‘guts’ of the ships had besides to be torn out for the passage of the shaft. 1892 R. L. Stevenson Lett. (1899) II. 276 I..can almost always get a happy day out of Marion Crawford—ce n'est pas toujours la guerre, but it's got life to it and guts, and it moves. 1897 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Guts..(Artists), ‘no guts in it’. The expression is pretty general, but it is more specially used by artists to announce their opinion that there is nothing in a picture. d. plural. Energy, verve, staying power; courage, force of character. colloquial.Cf. dialect phr. to have neither gut nor gall (1887 in Eng. Dial. Dict.). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > [noun] elne888 bieldc890 daringc1374 coraiouste1382 inwit1382 courageousnessa1513 courage1540 couragie1556 valour1581 nerve1602 stoutheartednessa1683 noble-heartedness1836 lionheartedness1885 gut1893 gutsiness1893 bottle1958 the mind > will > decision > constancy or steadfastness > [noun] > capacity for moral effort or endurance thildc950 strengthOE dureec1330 rankc1400 tolerance1412 adamant1445 toleration1531 validity1578 durance1579 bent1604 strongness1650 duress1651 strength1667 durableness1740 stamina1803 willpower1842 backbone1843 thewness1860 sand1867 upbearing1885 wiriness1892 gut1893 sisu1926 1893 J. S. Farmer Slang (at cited word) Put your guts into it..= Row the very best you can. He (or it) has no guts in him (or it) = He (or it) is a common rotter. 1900 G. Swift Somerley 85 If you have what are, at Cambridge, vulgarly but expressively called ‘guts’. 1924 W. M. Raine Troubled Waters ii. 22 It's about your size to send a skull-and-crossbones threat through the mail, but I notice you haven't the guts to sign it. 1924 R. Keable Recompence i. 9 Can't you dig me out a chap with some guts, who has learned to rough it? 1933 J. C. Powys Glastonbury Romance xxii. 713 I think, if you haven't the guts to act like a man in the matter, you ought to leave this girl alone. 1955 Times 30 Aug. 5/2 That policeman had plenty of guts. I have been informed that the policeman was not seriously hurt. 2. A particular portion of the lower alimentary canal between the pylorus and the anus; = intestine n.: often preceded by a defining adjective, the higher portion being named little, small, †subtle, the lower great, large. †fat gut (= French gras boyau, Cotgrave), the rectum (also arse-gut; right-gut: see the prefixed words). †hungry gut (see hungry adj. Compounds 2), the jejunum. Also blind gut n., the cæcum; transferred a cul-de-sac.small-gut man: see small adj. and n.² Compounds 4. a. In singular. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > intestines > [noun] > portion of gut1398 gut1398 knuckle1601 intestine1651 buttress1828 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xlii. 158 The thyrde lytyll gutte is callyd in latyn secundo simul unum. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 678/11 Hic lien,..a longe gute. c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 280 Þenne he [Ionas] lurkkes & laytes..In vche a nok of his nauel, but nowhere he fyndez No rest..bot ramelande myre, In wych gut so euer he gotz. 1486 Bk. St. Albans b vij b Putt it in a small gut of a Capon. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 228/1 Gutte, a bowell, boyau. 1722 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (ed. 2) 224 There is very much Fat about its [i.e. the rectum's] external side, for which reason it is called the Fat-Gut. 1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. ii. 620 The operator..must with his fingers conduct the gut in by the same aperture through which it came out. 1806 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. IV. 415 The harbour [of Aberdeen] lies at the bottom of the eminence on which it stands, and is a blind gut, into which the tide flows, bending in a curved form. 1830 R. Knox tr. P. A. Béclard Elements Gen. Anat. 89 He..supposes it to be absorbed by the large gut. 1883 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women (ed. 2) xi. 90 They [fæces] may lie in any part of the great gut. 1897 M. L. Hughes Mediterranean Fever iii. 153 The involvement of the large gut. b. In plural. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > intestines > [noun] > portion of gut1398 gut1398 knuckle1601 intestine1651 buttress1828 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xlii. 158 vj pryncypall guttes, thre of theym ben subtyll..and thre aren grete. a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 9 Skoure þo guttus with salt ichon. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 342 Next to the bag of the Stomacke, men and sheepe have the small guts, called Lactes. 1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 25 I injected into the small Guts of a Cow..a sufficient quantity of Water to fill them. 1722 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (ed. 2) 223 The third and last of the small Guts is the Ilium... The thick and great Guts are the Cæcum, Colon, and Rectum. 1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 93 A solution of this substance injected into the great guts of a dog. c. In generalized sense. ΚΠ 1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 10 34 The portion of gut was about the size of a walnut. 1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 211 The portion of gut which had been strangulated was found considerably inflamed. 1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 295 A knuckle of much congested gut. d. Extended to the whole of the alimentary canal or its lower portion. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > intestines > [noun] tharma700 ropeeOE wombeOE entrailc1330 arse-ropesa1382 entraila1382 bowel1393 bellyc1400 manifold?c1400 gutc1460 tripe?a1505 trillibub1519 puddingsa1525 singles1567 fibre1598 intestine1598 gutlet1615 colon1622 garbage1638 pud1706 intestinule1836 c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 607 Make clene þe place also þat ye calle his gowt. 1553 N. Udall tr. T. Gemini Compend. Anat. A ii/1 The seconde portion of the gutte is called Ieiunum, or the hungry gutte, because he is euermore emptye. 1712 J. Warder True Amazons 5 [Speaking of bees.] In the hinder parts there is a Gut. 1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory ii. 395 Sheathing the rectum in cases of abrasion, and inflammation of the gut. 1836 A. Combe Physiol. Digestion i. v. 126 The pylorus..opens and allows it to pass into the gut. 1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 36 The inner germinal layer [is] the foundation of the gut or enteron. 1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. 1 137 The intestine, or gut proper, begins at the pyloric end of the stomach and ends at the cloaca. †e. transferred. Applied to the shoots or bine of hops. Obsolete. rare. (Cf. gut v. 1b.) ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > hop-plant > parts of hopc1440 gut1573 bell1594 hop-boll1652 hop-vine1707 bine1727 hop-bind1733 bind1792 hop-bine1813 lupulin1823 bur1832 rough bine1846 pin1885 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 38 From hop long gut, away go cut... Sharpe knife to cut, superfluous gut. f. In machine sheep-shearing: a flexible shaft which conveys the power from an overhead source to the shearer's handpiece. Australian and New Zealand. ΚΠ 1956 G. Bowen Wool Away! (ed. 2) viii. 100 The correct length of a gut is shown when, with the long and short gut connected, they hang so that the short gut swings just clear of the floor. 1965 J. S. Gunn Terminol. Shearing Industry ii. 35 The tube is a casing down which runs a flexible driving shaft known as the ‘gut’. g. figurative. Used, chiefly attributive, of an issue, question, etc.: basic, fundamental; (also, of a reaction) instinctive and emotional rather than rational. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > basis or foundation > [adjective] fundamental1588 primal1619 groundinga1641 radical1648 radicative1657 ultimate1659 substrated1663 substrate1678 foundational1683 principial1699 basic1846 basal1866 substratal1881 nuclear1912 gut1964 blue skies1985 1964 Economist 17 Oct. 261/3 For Harold Wilson it was a carefully planned campaign:..the neo-Kennedyism combined with a concentration on gut issues. 1968 Guardian 26 Sept. 10/3 The three nights of rioting that followed his murder were an immediate gut reaction. 1969 Times 22 July p. ii/3 The moon programme..was a gut issue, as even the less enthusiastic realized. 1969 Daily Tel. 14 Nov. 5/2 When we [sc. the Americans] first went into space, we had no idea how much it was going to benefit the economy. We went in as a gut reaction to the Soviet challenge. 1970 Win 15 June 4/1 There are some gut questions the pacifist must face. 1970 Win 15 June 4/1 Really, the questions are too gut for us. 1971 Listener 19 Aug. 223/2 Most people's reaction to the Oz trial and sentences has been what one might call a gut-reaction—whether of shock or satisfaction. h. to bust (also rupture) a gut: to exert oneself, to make a great effort. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)] > make a great effort to move (also stir) heaven and earth1580 to swelt one's heart1584 to sweat blood1911 to bust (also rupture) a gut1912 to fall over backwards1932 to bust (also break) one's balls1968 1912 Dial. Notes 3 572 Bust a gut,..to make a supreme effort. ‘Just bust a gut now and see if we can't lift this log.’ 1968 C. Drummond Death & Leaping Ladies i. 23 ‘I'll be back in twenty minutes.’..‘Don't bust a gut,’ advised Miss Winkelbaum, ‘the hussies will be late.’ 1970 J. Porter Rather Common Sort of Crime xiii. 154 If Mack'd been some fat, respectable, middle-aged old bastard, the cops'd've bust a gut nicking somebody fer croaking him. 1970 W. Smith Gold Mine xiii. 36 ‘Huh!’ Popeye checked his watch. ‘Two hours forty to get down, you don't reckon to rupture a gut do you?’ 3. a. In singular and plural. Put for the belly or stomach, esp. as the seat of appetite or gluttony. Now dialect and colloquial. gut and ga' (gall) (Scottish): the whole contents of the stomach. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > stomach or belly > [noun] maweOE wombOE codc1275 cropc1325 gut1362 stomachc1374 bellyc1375 pauncha1393 flanka1398 heartc1400 kitchen?a1500 kytec1540 micklewame1566 craw1574 ventricle1574 pudding house1583 buck1607 wame1611 ventricule1677 ventriculus1710 victualling-office1751 breadbasket1753 haggis1757 haggis bagc1775 baggie1786 pechan1786 manyplies1787 middle piece1817 inner man1856 inner woman1857 tum-tum1864 tum1867 tummy1867 keg1887 stummick1888 kishke1902 shit-bag1902 Little Mary1903 puku1917 Maconochie1919 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. xi. 44 Thei..demeth god in-to the gorge whon heore gottus follen. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. ii. 34 Al is noȝt good to þe gost þat þe gut Askeþ. 1535 W. Tyndale in Test. W. Tracie sig. Bij Dame auarice, with as greadye a gutt..as the best. 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. P.ii Lions..Whose greedy gutts the gnawing hoonger pricks. c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) ii. 772 To put Scraps twice runne over, in thy half starvd gutt. 1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) i. ii. ii. ii. 67 Gluttony kills more then the sword,..this al-devouring and murdering gut. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 101 That had learn'd to govern his Tongue, his Gut, his Concupiscence; these three. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires iv. 58 For his own Gut he bought the stately Fish. a1732 J. Gay Fables (1738) II. iii. 23 Here ev'ry day he cramm'd his guts. 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 52 Gut an' ga' she keest wi' breakings strange. 1790 A. Wilson Poems 65 An Inn's thy Temple, and thy God's thy guts. b. In plural. A corpulent or gluttonous person. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [noun] > gluttony > glutton glutton?c1225 glutc1394 globberc1400 glofferc1440 gluttoner1482 gourmanda1492 ravener1496 belly1526 golofer1529 lurcher1530 cormorant1531 flesh-fly1532 full-belly1536 belly-godc1540 flap-sauce1540 gourmander1542 gully-gut1542 locust1545 glosser1549 greedy-guts1550 hungry gut1552 belly-slave1562 fill-belly1563 grand paunch1569 belly-paunch1570 belly-swainc1571 trencher-slave1571 slapsauce1573 gorche1577 helluo1583 gormandizer1589 eat-all1598 engorger1598 guts1598 guller1604 gourmandist1607 barathrum1609 eatnell1611 snapsauce1611 Phaeacian?1614 gutling1617 overeater1621 polyphage1623 tenterbelly1628 gut-head1629 stiffgut1630 gobble-guts1632 gulist1632 polyphagian1658 fill-paunch1659 gype1662 gulchin1671 stretch-gut1673 gastrolater1694 gundy-gut1699 guttler1732 gobbler1755 trencher-hero1792 gorger1817 polyphagist1819 battenera1849 stuff-guts1875 chowhound1917 gannet1929 Billy Bunter1939 guzzle-guts1959 garbage can1963 foodaholic1965 1550 T. Lever Serm. Thyrd Sondaye in Lente (new ed.) sig. B.iii Disceitful Merchauntes, couetous greedyguttes, and ambicious prollers, whiche canne neuer haue ynough.] 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 231 Thou clay braind guts . View more context for this quotation 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Gutts, a very fat, gross Person. 1868 Ld. Lytton Orval in New Poems II. 286 March! march, old guts! This is a lazy lord. 1896 G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-bk. Guts, a glutton. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 168 The unfortunate fat boy..is known as..guts, [etc.]. 4. The intestines of animals employed for various purposes. a. In plural. As food: = offal n. and adj. Cf. to carry guts to a bear at bear n.¹ Phrases 5. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > pluck, offal, or tripe tripea1300 numblesc1330 tripea1400 chitterling?c1400 giblet14.. hasletc1400 umbles14.. womb cloutc1400 garbage1422 offala1425 interlardc1440 hinge1469 draught?a1475 mugget1481 paunch1512 purtenance1530 pertinence1535 chawdron1578 menudes1585 humblesa1592 gut?1602 pluck1611 sheep's-pluck1611 fifth quarter1679 trail1764 fry1847 chitling1869 small goods1874 black tripe1937 variety meat1942 ?1602 Narcissus (MS Bodl. Rawl. poet. 212) (1893) 284 O thou that pickest wisdome out of guttes. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cxxxv. 124 Wee, the Kings Officers, crys the Fellow that carrys Guts to the Bears. b. As an envelope for black puddings, sausages, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > pluck, offal, or tripe > intestines used as envelope gut1598 pudding gut1598 1598 tr. G. de Rosselli Epulario iij b Take guts well washed and made clean, and fill them with the meat. 1819 Sporting Mag. 5 32 In Suffolk, black puddings made in guts are called links. c. For making violin strings; (hence in †plural) the strings themselves (obsolete). In modern use in singular as the name of a material. Cf. catgut n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > violin > strings of gut1611 fiddle-string1728 violin string1841 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other animal raw materials > [noun] > gut bowela1475 therm1549 tharm1671 guta1774 tharm-string1787 1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. H2^v Heere take this viall, runne vpon the guts, And end thy quarrell singing. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §280 A Viall should haue..the Strings of Guts mounted vpon a Bridge, as in Ordinary Vialls. a1774 O. Goldsmith Surv. Exper. Philos. (1776) II. 190 On this side [of the Eolian lyre] are seven strings of very fine gut. 1883 [see gut-spinning n. at Compounds 1c]. d. In singular. The silken fibre obtained from the intestines of the silkworm. (In full silkworm gut, silk-gut.) Chiefly used in the making of fishing tackle.The worm, when about to spin, is killed and put into vinegar, then pulled in two, and the ‘gut’ is drawn out to a thin thread and dried. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other animal raw materials > [noun] > gut > types of catgut1599 whale-guts1780 silkworm gut1833 gut1834 whipcord1880 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 16 Where I procured some hanks of gut..My fishing companions did not know that each filum of gut is a drawn-out silkworm just before it is about to weave its cocoon. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1115 Silkworm gut, for angling. 1872 F. Francis Bk. Angling (ed. 3) xiii. 428 Tying threads of gut together for lines. 1875 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 12) i. v. ii. §1. 309 It is generally made of pieces of gut, knotted together, and altogether comprising a length of from three to eight feet. 1899 Speaker 9 Sept. 260/2 At every cast the gut had fallen upon the water like a streak of lightning. 5. A narrow passage. a. A channel or run of water, a branch of a stream; a sound, strait. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > watercourse or channel runeOE sitchOE pipeOE sichetc1133 guttera1300 siket1300 sikec1330 watergate1368 gole?a1400 gotea1400 flout14.. aa1430 trough1513 guta1552 race1570 lode1572 canala1576 ditch1589 trink1592 leam1601 dike1616 runlet1630 stell1651 nullah1656 course1665 drain1700 lade1706 droke1772 regimen1797 draught1807 adit1808 sluit1818 thalweg1831 runway1874 the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > channel > [noun] > strait or narrow channel sounda1300 straitc1386 narrowa1544 kyle1549 guta1552 distrait1562 fret1576 pacea1578 cut1598 narrow seas1615 Propontis1689 neck1719 tickle1770 rigolet1771 khal1903 a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) II. 13 Ethelwolde, Abbate of Abbingdon..did clerely renovate and augmentid this Abbay, digging and caussing a Gut to cum out of Isis by force to serve and purge thoffices of thabbay. 1587 Harl. MS. 167 lf. 104 We riding (on ship) in a narrow gutt, the place yealding no better. a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) 9 The gutt of sea being here but narrow. 1703 J. Logan in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1870) IX. 223 I now design to keep her floating in a dock or gut. 1767 Bartram's Jrnl. 61 in W. Stork Acct. E. Florida (ed. 2) Near the Store was a deep gut with a middling stream of water, which headed about a quarter of a mile up in the pine-lands. 1768 A. Dalrymple in Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 395 These banks are..often..divided by a narrow gut, without bottom. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. xvi. 299 A privateer..came up with her in the middle of the gut, between Tariffa and Tangier, and there gave her one broadside, which directly sunk her. 1855 B. Taylor At Home & Abroad (1880) 1st Ser. xxii. 271 A gut between the rocks..conducts to the sea. 1887 T. N. Page in Scribner's Mag. 1 414/2 The trail..terminated..in a gut of the swamp. b. As a local designation; e.g. the Gut of Canso, the Gut of Gibraltar; also, a street in Valletta, Malta. At Oxford and Cambridge: the Gut: a bend of the river in the racing-course. ΚΠ 1716 B. Church Entertaining Passages Philip's War ii. 113 They had orders to go directly for Port Royal Gut. 1746 Acct. French Settlem. N. Amer. 9 There are three ways of getting into this great river:..the third is thro' the Gut of Canseau. 1770 G. Washington Writings (1889) II. 316 The Old Town Gut was so high as to wet us in crossing it. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §102 The seamen thought it not safe to go into the Gut that night,..that the entrance or exit from the Gut might be impracticable or dangerous. 1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer I. v. 160 We could not..get out of the Gut of Gibraltar. 1862 H. Kingsley Ravenshoe I. xiv. 173 Pembroke had won the fours, very much in consequence of Worcester having gone round the flag, and on being made to row again, of fouling them in the gut. 1889 Christ's Coll. Mag. 77 The third night Queens' fell an easy prey in the Gut. 1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 89 The Gut, a notorious street in Malta. 1970 ‘Zeno’ Grab iii. 25 Strait Street, Valetta, better known as the Gut, the centre of Malta's red light district. 1970 M. Butterworth Vanishing Act x. 108 Mosta dome and the Città Notabile, the trashy souvenir shops of Kingsway..and the honky tonk dives of the Gut. c. On land: a narrow passage between two declivities; (hence) a narrow passage or lane of any kind. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, passage, or means of access to a place > [noun] > through hills or difficult ground portc1275 pacec1330 close?a1400 destrayt1481 gate1601 gut1615 passc1650 defile1685 ghat1698 mountain pass1707 bealach1794 ca1795 poort1834 Passover1839 droke1848 gateway1884 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 188 North of it, in a gut of the hill was the fish-poole of Siloe. a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 132 We enter'd into a narrow Gut, between two steep Rocky Mountains. 1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. vii. 126 Before you arrived at these, you passed a narrow gut between two stone terrasses, that rose above your head. 1809 N. Pinkney Trav. South of France 256 A stony channel or gut which was..cut out to ease the ascent. 1873 Sat. Rev. 5 Apr. 447/2 The prospective widening of the narrow gut of Whitehall. 1893 R. Kipling in E. Gosse Quest. at Issue 261 A hundred fires sparkle in the gut of the pass. 1896 Daily News 20 July 7/3 The narrow valley gut of old Knightsbridge will be widened. 1896 Daily News 26 Dec. 3/2 The signal-box in this narrow gut of traffic. 6. a. †A gutter along the eaves of a house (obsolete); dialect. The eaves (of a stack). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > gutter gutter1355 gut1703 launder1891 gutter-way1908 1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 211 Guts to save Water under the Eves of a House. 1855 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. II. (Gloss.) 723/2 Gut (Essex), the eaves of a stack. †b. An outflow. Cf. gout n.² Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [noun] > that which flows brook?c1225 gotea1400 goutc1400 gut1567 fluence?1611 flow1802 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xi. f. 137^v His head too put Full vnderneathe the foming spowt where greatest was the gut. 7. (See quot. 1860-4.) ΚΠ 1860–4 Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) Gut, a term used in parts of Scotland for a sash bar. Compounds C1. General attributive and objective. a. gut-dresser n. ΚΠ 1852 C. Morfit Art of Tanning, Currying, & Leather-dressing (1853) 536 The workshop of the gut-dresser. gut-fat n. ΚΠ 1848 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1847 527 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (30th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 54) VI The slaughterers formerly got the gut fat for the whole of the labor thus described. 1895 Daily News 13 Dec. 8/1 Weights of fat, gut-fat, and trimmings. gut-link n. ΚΠ 1864 J. C. Atkinson Stanton Grange 173 Re-tie every knot, the same way as you tie your gut-links. gut-rope n. ΚΠ 1847 A. C. Smeaton Builder's Pocket Man. (new ed.) 205 Balistæ, catapultæ, and scorpions, in whose frames are holes for the passage of the homotona, which are strained by gut-ropes attached to windlasses worked by hand-spikes. gut-string n. ΚΠ 1659 G. Torriano Florio's Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese Nérvi sonóri, gut-strings for Instruments. a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 33 This hygroscope..is made by fastning to the upper end of a piece of gut-string..a very light index. 1892 Daily News 6 Aug. 8/6 A Manufactory of Gut-Strings requires a really experienced and pushing man. gut-substitute n. ΚΠ 1939 ‘G. Orwell’ Coming up for Air ii. iv. 87 Even now I could give you all the details about gut-substitute and gimp and Limerick hooks. † gut-vein n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 99 The second is called Intestinalis or the Gut-veine. gut-wall n. ΚΠ 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 606 When the intestine is healthy the bacillus coli communis has little disposition to escape through the gut-wall. b. guts-box n. ΚΠ 1940 D. Thomas Portrait of Artist as Young Dog 133 He'd put his hand down in the guts-box and bring you out a rat with its neck broken clean as a match for the price of a glass of beer. c. gut-dressing n. ΚΠ 1885 A. Watt Art of Leather Manuf. 393 The art of gut-dressing. gut-spinning n. ΚΠ 1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 319/2 Gut-spinning is the twisting of prepared gut into cord of various diameter for various purposes—i.e. for ordinary catgut, for use in machinery, and for fiddle-strings. d. gut-griping n. and adj. (also guts-griping) ΚΠ 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. i. 18 The rotten diseases of the south, the guts griping ruptures: [etc.]. 1679 J. Dryden Troilus & Cressida iv. ii. 49 The rotten diseases of the South, gut gripings, ruptures, Catarrhs; loads of gravell in the back..and the like. 1699 T. Brown tr. Erasmus Seven New Colloquies v. 43 That he might not lose a drop of this Gut-griping stuff. e. gut-open adj. ΚΠ 1935 L. MacNeice Poems 64 The town-dweller like a rabbit in a greengrocer's..Hangs by the heels gut-open against the fog. C2. gut-belting n. lathe or machine belting made of catgut (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875). gut-bread n. sweetbread, pancreas. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > glands liverOE kidneyc1325 rys lumbard?c1390 fee14.. sweetbread1565 burr1573 gut-bread1893 miltz1909 prairie oyster1941 1893 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 Apr. 812/2 The pancreas is vulgarly termed the ‘gutbread’..and is the article which would be supplied in the great majority of cases by butchers asked for sweetbread. † gut-bursten n. Obsolete abdominal hernia. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [noun] > hernia or rupture herniac1386 crepaturec1400 ramex?a1425 rupture?a1425 burstenness1483 rimburst1505 ruption?1541 mollification1543 bursting1544 burstness1552 film-bursting1578 bubonocele1597 rimburstennessc1600 burstning1607 gut-bursten1607 strangulated hernia1771 hypogastrocele1811 herniation1897 sliding hernia1910 incisional hernia1912 Morgagni hernia1958 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 394 First you shal vnderstand, that the gut bursten, and flanke bursten, doth proceed both of one cause, that is to say, by meanes that the skinne, called before Peritoneum, is either sore strained, or else broken. gut-foundered adj. (a) on the point of starvation (now dialect); †(b) affected with hernia. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [adjective] > hernia or rupture hernious1398 limb-broken1398 film-brokea1400 burstenc1440 broken-lended1483 rimburst1558 burst1574 bursten-gutted1601 broken-bellied1634 gut-foundered1647 ruptured1723 hernial1738 herniary1753 herniated1879 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > [adjective] > hungry > starving or starved hungryc950 ofhungeredOE hungeredc1425 famylousc1475 forhungered1481 hunger-starvena1533 starven1546 hunger-bit1549 hunger-bitten1549 affamished1554 starved1563 starving1581 gaunted1582 famishing1587 food-sick1587 hunger-starving1592 famined1622 gut-foundered1647 hunger-starved1647 starved-gut1653 half-starved1667 clemmed1674 nushed1691 pinch-gutted1704 starve-gutted1726 clemming1773 clung1807 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 26 I can make my self sick..with comparing the dazzeling splender wherewith our Gentle-women were embellished in some former habits, with the gut-foundred goosdome, wherewith they are now surcingled and debauched. a1658 J. Cleveland Char. Country-comm.-man (1677) 100 The clamorous Mutiny of a Gut-foundred Garrison. 1691 J. Wilson Belphegor iii. iv Cris. But now she 'as beaten me to mash. Min. And made me mere gut-founder'd. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Gut-foundred, exceeding Hungry. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Gut-founder'd, diseased from the effects of hunger. † gut-head n. Obsolete one who is stupid from over-feeding. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [noun] > gluttony > glutton glutton?c1225 glutc1394 globberc1400 glofferc1440 gluttoner1482 gourmanda1492 ravener1496 belly1526 golofer1529 lurcher1530 cormorant1531 flesh-fly1532 full-belly1536 belly-godc1540 flap-sauce1540 gourmander1542 gully-gut1542 locust1545 glosser1549 greedy-guts1550 hungry gut1552 belly-slave1562 fill-belly1563 grand paunch1569 belly-paunch1570 belly-swainc1571 trencher-slave1571 slapsauce1573 gorche1577 helluo1583 gormandizer1589 eat-all1598 engorger1598 guts1598 guller1604 gourmandist1607 barathrum1609 eatnell1611 snapsauce1611 Phaeacian?1614 gutling1617 overeater1621 polyphage1623 tenterbelly1628 gut-head1629 stiffgut1630 gobble-guts1632 gulist1632 polyphagian1658 fill-paunch1659 gype1662 gulchin1671 stretch-gut1673 gastrolater1694 gundy-gut1699 guttler1732 gobbler1755 trencher-hero1792 gorger1817 polyphagist1819 battenera1849 stuff-guts1875 chowhound1917 gannet1929 Billy Bunter1939 guzzle-guts1959 garbage can1963 foodaholic1965 1629 J. Gaule Distractions 328 A very Gut-head, he hath Asses' Eares direct. gut-hook n. a coupling hook and eye for round gut belts (Knight). gut-house n. = gutting-house at gutting n.¹ 1a. ΚΠ 1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) I. 231 Four to carry from gut-house to curing-house. gut-led adj. (perhaps) ruled by one's appetite. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [adjective] > gluttonous freckc950 egernec1200 gluttonous1340 glutterous1382 lecherous1480 pampereda1529 glutton1532 draffsacked1548 gourmand1557 pampering1562 guttish1567 ingluvious1569 belly-fed1574 lurching1577 gulling1579 lickerous-mouthed1579 gully-gut1582 gormandizing1596 belly-devout1599 guttling1633 helluous1641 gulous1657 belly-proud1675 gut-led1682 gulligutted1694 poke pudding1705 ungodly1746 ventripotent1823 ventripotential1824 guttlesome1861 1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin iv. 227 Nor was it Reason that the gut-led Fops Should spend their Tongues, who could not use their Chops. gut-length n. a length of silkworm gut. † gut-matter n. Obsolete something pertaining to bodily nourishment or appetite. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > [noun] meateOE eatOE foodOE fodderOE dietc1230 gista1290 victual1303 victualsa1375 preya1382 feedinga1398 pasturea1398 viancea1400 viandsc1400 livingc1405 meatingc1425 vitalyc1440 vianda1450 cates1461 vivers1536 viandry1542 viander1543 gut-matter1549 peck1567 belly-cheer1579 appast1580 manchet1583 chat1584 belly-metal1590 repasture1598 cibaries1599 belly-timber1607 belly-cheat1608 peckage1610 victuallage1622 keeping1644 vivresa1650 crib1652 prog1655 grub1659 beef1661 fooding1663 teething1673 eatablea1687 sunket1686 yam1788 chow-chow1795 keep1801 feed1818 grubbing1819 patter1824 ninyam1826 nyam1828 grubbery1831 tack1834 kai1845 mungaree1846 scoff1846 foodstuff1847 chuck1850 muckamuck1852 tuck1857 tucker1858 hash1865 nosh1873 jock1879 cake flour1881 chow1886 nosebag1888 stodge1890 food aid1900 tackle1900 munga1907 scarf1932 grubber1959 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Cor. xi. f. xxxii At this souper is represented the misterie of christian concorde, no bealy, nor gut matter. † gut-monger n. Obsolete one whose chief concern is his ‘gut’ or belly. ΚΠ 1655 R. Younge Blemish of Govt. 4 These drunken drones, these gut-mongers. † gut-pudding n. Obsolete a sausage. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > sausage > [noun] pudding1287 saucister1347 sausage14.. sauserling1475 pota1500 gigot1553 isingc1560 gut-pudding1697 small goods1716 jegget1736 German duck1785 pud1828 dog1891 Zepp1915 Zeppelin1915 wors1923 snag1941 1697 Verdicts Virg. & Homer v. 18 Homer compares Ulysses turning in his bed,..to a Gut-pudding or Sawsage broyling on a Gridiron. 1722 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (ed. 2) 12 Allentoies..in many Brutes is in the Shape of a Gut-Pudding. gut-rot n. colloquial unwholesome or unpalatable liquor or food (cf. rotgut n. and adj.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [noun] > unwholesome or unpalatable food strange flesha1616 gut-rot1916 junk1948 junk food1952 the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > types or qualities of intoxicating liquor > [noun] > unwholesome sour swig1548 rotgut1632 stinkibus1707 whistle-belly-vengeance1861 gut-rot1916 1916 A. H. Macklin in A. Lansing Endurance (1959) v. vi. 217 ‘Gut Rot, 1916’..served only to turn most of us teetotallers for life. 1938 S. Beckett Murphy 83 The customer..was paying for his gutrot ten times what it cost to produce. 1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 33 Gutrot, unhealthy-looking food or strong drink. 1965 F. Sargeson Mem. Peon ii. 32 The garish-looking sweet stuff he made his living from... ‘I make a dishonest living by trading in gutrot.’ guts-ache n. colloquial = stomach-ache n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in stomach or bowels womb achea1398 gnawing1398 torsionc1425 colicc1440 frettingc1440 the wormc1500 wringc1500 griping1526 wresting?1543 wringing?1550 bellyache1552 torment1578 colic passion1586 wind-colic1593 belly-thrawe1595 belly-grinding1597 fret1600 gripe1601 wrenching1607 mulligrubsa1625 bellywarka1652 torminaa1655 efferation1684 stomach-ache1763 gastrodynia1804 guts-ache1818 stony colic1822 wame-ill1829 gastralgia1834 tummy ache1926 1818 J. Keats Let. 13 July (1958) I. 324 Cant!..It is enough to give a spirit the guts-ache. 1934 E. Blunden Mind's Eye 145 Don't eat that, Jack; it'll give you the Guts'-Ache. 1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) vi. 89 ‘Ar,’ Launce said contemptuously. ‘You got a guts-ache or you're coming out in boils.’ gut-scraper n. (a humorous or derisive term for) a violin-player. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > violin-player violon1552 violin1667 violinistc1670 gut-scraper1707 violin-player1797 catgut-scraper1806 violan1850 1707 in H. Playford Wit & Mirth (new ed.) III. 167 Strike up drowsie Gut-Scrapers. ?a1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 203 Her charms had struck a sturdy Caird, As weell as poor Gutscraper. gut-scrapery n. an establishment where guts are scraped and cleaned. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific jobs are done > [noun] > others cutting room1700 pearl fishery1702 refinery1716 gin house1796 dressing shed1802 ginning house1819 boring-mill1833 sorting office1851 gut-scrapery1854 conditioning house1858 packery1861 washery1875 try-house1891 wet room1901 pump-out1935 1854 Q. Rev. 95 282 Triperies, bone-boiling-houses, gut-scraperies. † gut-seam n. Scottish Obsolete fat of the intestines, lard. ΚΠ 1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall iv. sig. B2^v The Greke and Romane did burne their dead..the Indean with Got-seame did besmeare. gut-shoot v. slang transitive to shoot in the guts. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > fire (a gun) [verb (transitive)] > shoot (a person or thing) > in specific part shin1819 gut-shoot1878 1878 C. Hallock Amer. Club List & Sportsman's Gloss. p. v Gut-shot, hit in the belly; wounded, but not disabled. 1935 E. Hemingway Green Hills Afr. (1936) ii. iii. 103 I'm afraid I gut-shot him. 1960 B. Crump Good Keen Man 33 He came to the door and shouted into the frosty dark that he'd gut-shoot the first of us to come near the hut. gut-shot n. and adj. ΚΠ 1935 E. Hemingway Green Hills Afr. (1936) ii. iii. 114 It looked, now, like a gut shot or one through the paunch. 1960 B. Crump Good Keen Man 50 Phillip was as slow as a gut-shot pig and started yelling as soon as he lost sight of me through the bush. gut-vexer n. = gut-scraper n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > fiddler fiddlera1100 gigoura1300 minikin tickler1607 scraper1611 gut-vexer1640 rosin-the-bow1767 fiddle1773 scrape-gut1837 bosh-man1846 bosh-faker1859 bosh-killer1935 1640 Wizard (MS. play) in R. Nares Gloss. Get out of my sight, you unlucky gut-vexers. gut-way n. (perhaps) a passage over a gut or watercourse. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > causeway across water or bog causeyc1300 causewayc1440 dike1480 dam1812 gut-way1898 1898 Westm. Gaz. 24 June 51 The standards were 25 ft. long at the ‘gutway’. gut-weed n. Sonchus arvensis (Britten & Holland Plant-n. 1879). † gut-worm n. Obsolete an intestinal worm. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [noun] > member of (worm) > parasitic or harmful > intestinal wormc1000 maw-worm1582 gut-worm1658 cavitary1835 helminth1852 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1106 The Arabians call them Emicar..the Germans Spulworm, Bauchworm, the English Gutworm. Draft additions June 2007 U.S. slang. A (university) course which is unchallenging or requires little work. Frequently attributive, in gut class, gut course. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > means of teaching > [noun] > class or course > types of summer session1594 evening class1762 summer school1793 training course1822 shop class1844 elective1850 optional1855 night class1870 correspondence class1876 Chautauqua1884 correspondence course1902 gut1902 holiday course1906 shop1912 pud1917 training seminar1917 film school1929 day school1931 refresher1939 farm shop1941 survey course1941 weekend course1944 crash programme1947 sandwich course1955 thick sandwich1962 module1966 bird course1975 1902 Boston Sunday Globe (Electronic text) 21 Dec. An easy course is a ‘gut’. 1940 Barnard Bull. (Barnard Coll., Columbia Univ.) 15 Nov. 2/2 Someone told us music was a gut course. 1989 M. Moffatt Coming of Age in New Jersey vii. 285 A gut..was a guaranteed A or B in exchange for almost no work. 2006 New Yorker 16 Jan. 50/1 He..had his fair share of gut classes—nutrition, career planning, personal finance, and driver ed. Draft additions June 2013 gut check n. North American (originally Sport) (a) a challenging situation or event which tests one's strength of will; (b) an instance of assessing one's feelings regarding a course of action, typically intended to reconfirm one's enthusiasm or resolve. ΚΠ 1963 San Antonio (Texas) Light 13 Nov. 36/5 The tough games are gut-checks... You have to decide how hard you want to win. 1971 Port Angeles (Washington) Evening News 31 Oct. 8/2 We just took a gut check at half time and came back. 1985 Philadelphia Inquirer 10 Dec. e1 I think it's time for some of us to take a gut check and see if we really want it or if we're just going through the motions. 1992 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Nexis) 20 May 8 b May is the month that determines whether crops will be above or below average... And so far, the gut-check is testing the wills of the state's 80,000 farmers. 2009 M. Cochrane Girl who threw Butterflies iv. 34 When a pitcher was in a jam, when things looked bad, the bases loaded, say, nobody out, late in the game, when the pressure was on, that was a gut check. 2009 R. Wolffe Renegade ii. 54 It was time for a gut check after all the professional advice. Michelle and Barack approached the conversation coolly. Draft additions December 2012 gut flora n. = intestinal flora n. at intestinal adj. Additions. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > organism > micro-organism > [noun] > specific type of intestinal flora1893 gut flora1936 superbug1959 pathotype1961 methylotroph1972 pathovar1975 1936 H. L. Sweetman Biol. Control Insects iii. 46 The gut flora especially is extremely rich, both in variety of species and abundance of individuals. 1988 G. Palmer Politics of Breastfeeding iii. 47 A breastfed baby's intestine will have a different acid/alkali balance from that of the artificially fed infant and this will affect the gut flora. 2011 Independent (Nexis) 3 May 20 Lean people are likely to have a more diverse community of gut flora compared to obese individuals. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). gutv. Brit. /ɡʌt/, U.S. /ɡət/ Forms: Also Middle English gotte, Middle English gutton. Etymology: < gut n. 1. a. transitive. To take out the guts of (fish); to eviscerate. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > prepare seafood [verb (transitive)] > gut guta1400 gill1530 garbage1542 geremumble1599 gip1603 to dress down1843 gib1883 a1400 Metr. Hom. (Vernon MS.) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen 57 315 Oþur while wesch he dissches And oþur while he gotted fissches. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 220/1 Gutton, exentero. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 41 Quhen now thay [sc. herrings] ar gutted, and the meltis takne out, thay ar sa leine that thay ar nocht to be compared with the rest. 1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. L7^v Carpe..Lay it scaled and gutted sixe houres in salt. 1677 Compl. Servant-maid 80 Wash your Eels and gut them. 1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 263 In the Evening they us'd to gut, split, and salt what they caught. 1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper ii. 25 Scale, gut, and wash your Herrings. 1823 J. Galt Entail I. xxxvi. 317 I redde you to consider weel what ye're doing, and gut nae fish till ye catch them. 1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. viii. 135 Take the herrings, cut off the heads, and gut them. absolute.1842 J. Wilson Voy. Scotl. II. 161 In hiring servants it is by no means unusual for the latter to stipulate for leave to gut during a certain number of days, as a perquisite beyond their usual termly wages. †b. To clear (a hop plant) of superfluous ‘gut’ or shoots. Obsolete. rare. (Cf. gut n. 2e.) ΚΠ 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 42 Hop rootes..well gutted and pared, the better they proue. 2. a. transferred. To clear out the contents or inside of; to empty thoroughly; esp. to remove or destroy the internal fittings of (a building, etc.). Const. of. Now frequently used in passive and of destruction by fire. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)] > damage deliberately or vandalize > gut or remove things from a building, etc. unripa1513 tirr1553 discover1563 unfloor1589 unpinion1593 unbottom1598 unbrick1598 unpave1598 unroof1598 unslate1598 untop1598 flay1636 unplank1646 gut1688 unmantle1828 1688 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 486 The 11th, in the evening, the mobile gott together, and went to the popish chappel in Lincolns Inn Feilds, and perfectly gutted the same. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires x. 192 A troop of Cut-Throat Guards were sent, to seize The Rich Mens Goods, and gut their Palaces. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 212 We took an Arabian Jonk... We gutted him of the Pearl. 1780 Gentleman's Mag. 50 313/2 The public-office in Bow-Street, and Sir John Fielding's dwelling-house adjoining, were gutted, as their [the rioters'] phrase was, and the whole contents committed to the flames. 1781 H. Smeathman in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 177 While some are employed in gutting the posts, others ascend from them, entering a rafter or some other part of the roof. 1819 T. Moore Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress (ed. 3) 1 Whether diddling your subjects or gutting their fobs. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxvi Stripes..proceeded to gut my portmanteau and to lay out the black kerseymeres..and other polite articles of evening costume. 1855 R. Browning Holy-Cross Day x The hand..Which gutted my purse, would throttle my creed. 1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius vii. 174 Five times within the last hundred years the cone of Vesuvius has been gutted by explosive eruptions. 1873 L. Ferguson Disc. Pref. 5 A thatched hut had been gutted and fitted up with seats. 1903 Westm. Gaz. 25 Aug. 8/2 The farmhouse and out~buildings were completely gutted. 1968 Bucks Examiner 3 May 1 (heading) Furniture factory gutted. b. figurative. In various applications; esp. to get out the essential contents of (a book); to extract all the important passages of (a book) in a review or abridgement. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > extract > extract (from) [verb (transitive)] deflowera1387 abstracta1475 excerptc1536 excerp1570 extract1607 gut1715 except1721 clip1872 1715 J. Addison Spectator No. 567. ¶4 This way of writing was first of all introduced by T--m Br--wn, of facetious Memory, who, after having gutted a Proper Name of all its intermediate Vowels, used to plant it in his Works, and make as free with it as he pleased. 1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. ii. vii. 198 As for the other guests, the peerage was gutted. 1868 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Dec. 3 We have not yet calculated how many of the victories of Mr. Disraeli's friends have been due to Mr. Disraeli's skilful manipulation of details in redividing the counties and in gutting them. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Oct. 3/1 Now suppose Messrs. Longman issued a sixpenny edition of the book, properly ‘gutted’ (as the newspaper phrase is). 1897 W. T. Stead in Daily News 13 June 6/4 I am never better pleased than when I see my books well ‘gutted’—to use the expressive but somewhat vulgar term. 3. intransitive. To cram the guts; to eat greedily, to gormandize. slang. (Cf. dialect guts v.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > eat or drink to excess [verb (intransitive)] > be gluttonous gourmanda1450 gormandize1548 belly-cheer1549 gurmander1570 overfeed1589 overeat1590 glutton1602 cram1609 gutc1616 pamper1620 guttle1654 gluttonize1656 engorge1667 stuff1728 guddle1825 to make a pig of oneself1873 guts1903 c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) vi. 2393 'Tis safest gutting at a loafe begunne. 1633 W. Ames Fresh Suit against Human Ceremonies ii. 316 Heer the Rejoynder..accuseth him of making it a Guttide; As if no Civill day of rejoycing could be without Gutting. 1893 in J. S. Farmer Slang †4. transitive. To make channels or ruts in (ground); to ‘gutter’. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > ditch [verb (transitive)] ditch1393 gutterc1420 water-furrow?1523 trench1530 gut1557 plough-trench1712 thorough-drain1838 neck1844 sheugh1882 1557 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandrie sig. B.i Or winter doe come, while the weather is good: for gutting thy grounde, get the home with thy wood. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmas GUT GUT n. Brit. /ɡʌt/ , U.S. /ɡət/ Physics = grand unified theory n. at grand adj., n., and adv. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > [noun] > mutual relation of force and energy > unified theory unified (field) theory1935 grand unified theory1977 GUT1978 1978 Nucl. Physics B. 140 18 (heading) Application to grand unified theories (GUTS). 1987 New Scientist 17 Sept. 49/1 The essential idea of GUTs is that they contain a single type of force field, called a ‘gauge’ field, which interacts with a so-called ‘Higgs’ field. 2007 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) June 45/1 With the advent of asymptotic freedom and GUTs, particle physicists had an obvious reason to begin studying the early universe. extracted from Gn. < n.a1000v.a1400 as lemmas
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