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gut

/ɡʌt/

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Northern England/ɡʊt/

gut noun: the alimentary canal, especially the intestine.

Noun (1)

gut (countable and uncountable, plural guts)

  1. The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.
  2. (informal) The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged.
    • You've developed quite a beer gut since I last met you.
  3. (uncountable) The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.
    Synonyms:
    catgut
  4. A person's emotional, visceral self.
    • I have a funny feeling in my gut.
  5. (informal) A class that is not demanding or challenging.
    • You should take Intro Astronomy: it's a gut.
  6. (especially) A narrow channel, passage, or stream of water. (Compare gote.)
    • the Gut of Canso
    • There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken any way you please, is bad, / And strands them in forsaken guts and creeks / No decent soul would think of visiting.1887 March 21, Rudyard Kipling, “Kidnapped”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., published 1888, →OCLC, page 111
  7. The sac of silk taken from a silkworm when ready to spin its cocoon, for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. When dry, it is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fishing line.

Verb

gut (third-person singular simple present guts, present participle gutting, simple past and past participle gutted)

  1. (transitive) To eviscerate.
    • Holonym: field dress
    • The fisherman guts the fish before cooking them.
  2. (transitive) To remove or destroy the most important parts of.
    • Fire gutted the building.
    • Congress gutted the welfare bill.
  3. (transitive) To dishearten; to crush (the spirits of).
    • They were gutted by the court's decision.
    • It's no worse than what he said in Miami, but hearing him repeat it, attribute it to my father...it guts me. “That's who your family is. Who you are. Stangers—Stanleys, whatever your fucking names are,” he spits.2016 October 4, Danielle Pearl, In Ruins, Forever, →ISBN

Adjective

gut (not comparable)

  1. Made of gut.
    • a violin with gut strings
  2. Instinctive.
    • gut reaction

Noun (2) capitalized: GUT

GUT (plural GUTs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of grand unification theory or grand unified theory.

Proper noun capitalized: Gut

Gut (plural Guts)

  1. A surname from German.

gut meaning in Urdu, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada

gut in Urdu

گٹ

gut in Telugu

గట్

gut in Malayalam

ഗട്ട്

gut in Kannada

ಗಟ್
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gut in Persian
شکم دریدن šekam daridan
gut in Vietnamese
rút ruột

Examples of gut in a sentence

  • The lioness gutted her prey.
  • FRAE Team-Gut to Whitley, wi' coals black and brown, For the Amphitrite loaded, the keel had gyen down;1840 [original 1824?], Gilchrist, The Tyneside Songster, page 15
  • Where Coonie gut by tha shord turns roun', / Close by tha stickle-path us foun',1867, William Frederick Rock, Jim and Nell: A Dramatic Poem in the Dialect of North Devon, page 35
  • Why, you said you were not going down to-day," greeted them just above the Gut, that they were aware of the presence of the freshmen's four-oar.1870 [original 1861?], Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, page 17
  • […] at a round swing-trot kept pace on the shore with the swing of the Balliol eight, as she shot through the narrows of "the gut" as straight as an arrow, […]1882, Herman Charles Merivale, Faucit of Balliol: A Story in Two Parts, volume 1, page 2

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Synonyms of gut

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Forms of gut

Noun
pluralguts
pluralGUTs
Verb
third-person singular presentguts
present participlegutting
past participlegutted
pastgutted
Proper noun
pluralGuts

Past tense of gut: gutted

Plural of gut: guts

Origin of gut

From Middle English gut, gutte, gotte, from Old English gutt (usually in plural guttas (“guts, entrails”)), from Proto-Germanic *gut-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”). Related to English gote (“drain”), Old English ġēotan (“to pour”). More at gote, yote. The verb is from Middle English gutten, gotten (“to gut”).

* As a German, Alemannic German, and Jewish surname, variant of Guth. Also compare Gutmann. * As an English surname, from the noun gut. See Gott.

Words formed from gut

Phrases with gut

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Words that rhyme with gut

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Questions about gut

What does gut mean?
Gut means the alimentary canal, especially the intestine.
What is gut in Urdu?
Gut in Urdu is گٹ. See Gut meaning in Urdu.
How do you use gut in a sentence?
The lioness gutted her prey.
What part of speech is gut?
Gut can be a noun, a verb, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce gut?
Gut is pronounced /ɡʌt/.
What is the plural of gut?
The plural of gut is guts.

Words near gut in the dictionary

  1. gusts
  2. gustsful
  3. Gustus
  4. gusty
  5. Gusu
  6. gut
  7. gut barging
  8. gut bomb
  9. gut bombs
  10. gut bread
  11. gut breads

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gut (page history and authors); GUT (page history and authors); Gut (page history and authors); gut (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gut (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gut (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gut (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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