gutnoun
uk/ɡʌt/us/ɡʌt/gut noun (BOWELS)
[ C ] the long tube in the body of a person or animal, through which food moves during the process of digesting food:
[ C ] informal a person's stomach when it is extremely large:
bowels:
[ U ] a strong thread made from an animal's bowels used, especially in the past, for making musical instruments and sports rackets
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The digestive system
- asshole
- bowel
- cecum
- chyme
- colonic
- colorectal
- digestive system
- gastrointestinal
- ileum
- innards
- intestine
- ng
- oesophageal
- oesophagus
- omental
- omentum
- sigmoid
- tummy
- ureter
- urogenital
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gut noun (FEELING)
a strong belief about someone or something that cannot completely be explained and does not have to be decided by reasoning:
a way of deciding what should be done or what is right, that is based on how someone feels rather than thinking about reasons:
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Predicting things and intuition
- augur
- augury
- bellwether
- betcha
- bode
- far-sighted
- intuit
- intuition
- intuitive
- nasty
- omen
- prophesy
- prophetic
- psychic
- read sb's mind idiom
- read sb's palm idiom
- read the runes idiom
- scent
- second-guess
- visionary
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gut noun (BRAVERY)
courage in dealing with danger or uncertainty:
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Bravery
- audacious
- audacity
- backbone
- balls
- bold
- bottle
- bravery
- derring-do
- Dutch courage
- fearless
- fighting spirit
- fortitude
- heart
- intestinal fortitude
- liquid courage
- nerve
- pluck
- valorous
- valour
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Idiom(s)
gutverb [ T ]
uk/ɡʌt/us/ɡʌt/-tt-gut verb [ T ] (EMPTY A BUILDING)
to destroy the inside of a building completely, usually by fire:
to remove the inside parts and contents of a building, usually so that it can be decorated in a completely new way
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Destroying and demolishing
- annihilate
- apocalypse
- be sacrificed on the altar of sth idiom
- blast
- blast/blow sb/sth to kingdom come idiom
- costly
- fall in
- kill sth off
- kill the goose that lays the golden egg idiom
- knock
- knock sth down
- sacrifice
- sink
- stave
- stave sth in
- take sb/sth out
- tear 1
- tear sth apart
- tear sth down
- wipe
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gut verb [ T ] (REMOVE ORGANS)
to remove the inner organs of an animal, especially in preparation for eating it:
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Preparing animals & fish for cooking
- bone
- boneless
- butcher
- butchery
- ceviche
- clean
- disembowel
- filet
- fillet
- joint
- pluck
- render
- render sth down
- rendering
- shuck
- skewer
- skin
- skinless
- tenderize
- truss