Gut Definition
gŭt
guts, gutted, gutting
noun
guts
The bowels; entrails.
Webster's New World
The stomach or belly.
Webster's New World
The embryonic digestive tube, consisting of the foregut, the midgut, and the hindgut.
American Heritage Medicine
All or part of the alimentary canal, esp. the intestines.
Webster's New World
Innermost emotional or visceral response.
She felt in her gut that he was guilty.
American Heritage
verb
guts, gutted, gutting
To remove the intestines from; eviscerate.
Webster's New World
To extract essential or major parts of.
Gut a manuscript.
American Heritage
To destroy the interior of, as by fire.
Webster's New World
To reduce or destroy the effectiveness of.
A stipulation added at the last minute gutted the ordinance.
American Heritage
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adjective
Urgent and basic or fundamental.
The gut issues of a campaign.
Webster's New World
Based on intuition, instinct, or emotion rather than careful consideration.
A gut feeling, gut reaction.
Webster's New World
Easy; simple.
A gut course in college.
Webster's New World
Made of gut, e.g., a violin with gut strings.
Wiktionary
Instinctive, e.g., a gut reaction.
Wiktionary
abbreviation
Webster's New World
idiom
gut it out
- To show pluck and perseverance in the face of opposition or adversity.
American Heritage
hate someone's guts
- to hate someone intensely
Webster's New World
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Gut
- gut it out
- hate someone's guts
Origin of Gut
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From Middle English gut, gutte, gotte, from Old English gutt (usually in plural guttas (“guts, entrails”)), from Proto-Germanic *gut-, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeud- (“to pour”). Related to English gote (“drain”), Old English ġēotan (“to pour”). More at gote, yote.
From Wiktionary
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From Middle English guttes entrails from Old English guttas gheu- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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