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ungut

ungut verb: to gut, to remove the guts of.

Verb

ungut (third-person singular simple present unguts, present participle ungutting, simple past and past participle ungutted)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) To gut, to remove the guts of.
    • [L]et it be a great Honour for one to be a Butcher, by killing, flaying, ungutting, and quartering a wild Beast.1713, Spaccio della Bestia Trionfante, or the Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast (translated from the Iralian of Giordano Bruno into English by WIlliam Morehead) The Third Dialogue, page 261
    • We killed two rattlesnakes, ungutted them
      And ate them, sliced up, fried like chicken.1958, Tri-quarterly, volumes 1-3, page 42

Forms of ungut

third-person singular presentunguts
present participleungutting
past participleungutted
pastungutted

Origin of ungut

From un- + gut.

Questions about ungut

What does ungut mean?
Ungut means to gut, to remove the guts of.
What part of speech is ungut?
Ungut is a verb.
What is the past tense of ungut?
The past tense of ungut is ungutted.

Words near ungut in the dictionary

  1. ungunks
  2. Unguraș
  3. Ungureni
  4. ungushing
  5. ungusseted
  6. ungut
  7. unguts
  8. ungutted
  9. ungutting
  10. unguttural
  11. unguyed

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