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guttery

guttery adjective: having a guttering flame; flickering and weak.

Adjective

guttery (comparative more guttery, superlative most guttery)

  1. Having a guttering flame; flickering and weak.
    • Its guttery flare exposed a bed, with a thin mattress and a skimpy cover, shoved close up under the sloping wall; a sprained chair on its last legs; an old horsehide trunk; a shaky washstand of cheap yellow pine, garnished forth with an ewer and a basin; a limp, frayed towel; and a minute segment...1913, Irvin S. Cobb, The Escape of Mr. Trimm
    • I am on picket, and writing in the guard-tent by a guttery lantern.1900, Erskine Childers, In the Ranks of the C.I.V.
  2. (broadly) Dark and brooding.
    • On the Warlocks' early records, for all that the music was grim and dark and guttery, there was a lightness and a sense of fun in the totally over-the-top playing, each repetitive, maddening, Chinese-water-torture ching-ching-ching drawn out so far past the point of absurdity you could imagine...2005 October 21, Monica Kendrick, “Wait for It”, in Chicago Reader
  3. Vulgar; salacious or crude.
    • DB okay for one time laughs. at the crass, guttery humour.2011 July 1, “Bbuddah Hoga Tera Baap Movie Review”, in Times of India
    • The more guttery bit of our mind wants to break into a disco remix of 'Ranbir and Priyanka sitting in a tree…'2011 January 26, Hafsah Sarfraz, “Banned: Slackistan to address red flags before allowed screening”, in The News International

Noun

guttery (plural gutteries)

  1. The part of an abattoir used for emptying the gut of its contents; tripery.
    • In large abattoirs, the triperies and gutteries should preferably be situated under the slaughtering halls and in direct contact with them, by means of a system of chutes.1957, Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Meat Hygiene, Meat hygiene, page 168

Forms of guttery

Adjective
comparativemore guttery
superlativemost guttery
Noun
pluralgutteries

Origin of guttery

From gutter + -y.

Questions about guttery

What does guttery mean?
Guttery means having a guttering flame; flickering and weak.
What part of speech is guttery?
Guttery can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near guttery in the dictionary

  1. guttersome
  2. gutterspout
  3. gutterspouts
  4. gutterwise
  5. gutterwork
  6. guttery
  7. guttie
  8. guttier
  9. Guttierrez
  10. Guttierrezes
  11. gutties

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