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”).
fi suoli- (made of gut) · fi vaistonvarainen (instinctive) · bg инстинктивен (instinctive) · fr en boyau (made of gut) · fi suolesta tehty (made of gut) · bg чревен (made of gut) · de instinktiv (instinctive) · fr viscéral (instinctive) · de darmbesaitet (made 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”).
Meanings
(countable, uncountable) The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.
(countable, informal, uncountable) The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged.
You've developed quite a beer gut since I last met you.
(uncountable) The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.
(countable, uncountable) A person's emotional, visceral self.
I have a funny feeling in my gut.
(countable, informal, uncountable) A class that is not demanding or challenging.
You should take Intro Astronomy: it's a gut.
(countable, especially, in place names, uncountable) A narrow channel, passage, or stream of water. (Compare gote.)
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
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
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:
[…] it was not until shouts of "Hollo, Brown! how did you get there? 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
He took me out in [his ship ...] one time we were takin' her out o' th' river round by Seguin an' up through th' Gut an' Harpswell Bay to a landin' […] 1904, Mary Elizabeth Worthley, in The Mount Holyoke, volume 14, page 19
the Gut of Canso
We travelled by the shores of several "guts," or inlets from the harbour. Then opens out the broad expanse of the lake itself, surrounded by mountains, along the foot of which we are creeping. 1891, Ethel Gwendoline Moffatt Vincent, Newfoundland to Cochin China by the Golden Wave, New Nippon,..., page 19
(countable, uncountable) 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.
beer belly (abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged) · paunch (abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged) · digestive system (alimentary canal, intestine) · beer gut (abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged) · tummy (abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged) · catgut (intestines of an animal used to make strings) · tharm (alimentary canal, intestine) · abdomen (abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged) · intestine (alimentary canal, intestine) · guts (alimentary canal, intestine) · stomach (abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged) · belly (abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged) · innards (alimentary canal, intestine) · alimentary canal (alimentary canal, intestine) · potbelly (abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged) · tum (abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged)
Translations (47)
pt tripa (alimentary canal) · ru жилка (intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc) · fi maha (abdomen) · de Darm (alimentary canal) · es maría (gut course) · nl buik (abdomen) · ru пу́зо (abdomen) · pt pança (abdomen) · fi ruoansulatuskanava (alimentary canal) · fr bide (abdomen) · fi vatsa (emotional self) · ca budell (alimentary canal) · fi salmi (narrow passage of water) · pt estreito (narrow passage of water) · es tripa (intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc) · es tripa (alimentary canal) · de Bauch (abdomen) · ko 똥배 (abdomen) · de Ranzen (abdomen) · es mondongo (abdomen) · fi pussi (sac of silk) · es tripa (abdomen) · es panza (abdomen) · vo bälid (abdomen) · de Eingeweide (alimentary canal) · ota مسینه (sac of silk) · pdt Doarm (alimentary canal) · fr bedaine (abdomen) · ru брю́хо (abdomen) · pt barriga (abdomen) · nl ingewanden (intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc) · ru жила (intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc) · bg тесен пролив (narrow passage of water) · pt canal (narrow passage of water) · fr cordes de boyau (intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc) · fr panse (abdomen) · bg корем (abdomen) · fi helppo kurssi (gut course) · pt tripa (intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc) · fr boyaux (intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc) · it pancia (abdomen) · fi suoli (intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc) · ko 배 (abdomen) · zu isisu (abdomen) · bg черва (intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc) · de Darm (intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc) · de Darmsaite (intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc)
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”).
Meanings
(transitive) To eviscerate.
Holonym: field dress
The fisherman guts the fish before cooking them.
The lioness gutted her prey.
(transitive) To remove or destroy the most important parts of.
Congress gutted the welfare bill.
He gutted the kitchen, replacing an outdated scheme with a sexy mélange of mirror, lacquer, Rouge Griotte marble, and African mahogany. 2026 May 14, Sam Cochran, “Show of Hands”, in Architectural Digest, volume 83, number 4, page 69:
Fire gutted the building.
The fuselage came to rest 522 feet from the initial impact point on a magnetic heading of 175 degrees. The complete fuselage from the nose section, including the nose gear section, aft to the empennage, was extensively burned and gutted by fire. The cabin area, which consisted of only the lower fuselage, was melted and the metal was visible in the ice. 1982 July 20, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.12 Wreckage and Impact Information”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Pilgrim Airlines Flight 458, deHavilland DHC-6-100, N127PM, Near Providence, Rhode Island, February 21, 1982, archived from the original on 03 Apr 2024, page 4:
(transitive) To dishearten; to crush (the spirits of).
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:
They were gutted by the court's decision.
What's bothering me is that I'd felt more for him than I realized, and it guts me that it's over before it can really get going. 2017 October 4, Angela Quarles, Earning It: A Romantic Comedy, Unsealed Room Press, →ISBN:
it stravolgere (To remove or destroy the most important parts of) · nl vernietigen (To remove or destroy the most important parts of) · gl estripar (To eviscerate) · mi huke (To eviscerate) · fr éviscérer (To eviscerate) · fr vider (To eviscerate) · de ausweiden (To remove or destroy the most important parts of) · ca estripar (To eviscerate) · vi rút ruột (To remove or destroy the most important parts of) · nrf êbieilli (To eviscerate) · cy diberfeddu (To eviscerate) · nl uithalen (To eviscerate) · cs vykuchat (To eviscerate) · es destripar (To eviscerate) · pl bebeszyć (To eviscerate) · fr délabrer (To remove or destroy the most important parts of) · hu kibelez (To remove or destroy the most important parts of) · ru потроши́ть (To eviscerate) · de ausnehmen (To eviscerate) · bg изтърбушвам (To remove or destroy the most important parts of) · la exenterō (To eviscerate) · fi perata (To eviscerate) · mi tuaki (To eviscerate) · ru вы́потрошить (To eviscerate) · gl escochar (To eviscerate) · izh tehä (To eviscerate) · ca esbudellar (To eviscerate) · io vakuigar (To eviscerate) · it sviscerare (To eviscerate) · de ausweiden (To eviscerate) · fi hävittää (To remove or destroy the most important parts of) · pl wybebeszyć (To eviscerate) · it sventrare (To eviscerate) · bg изкормвам (To eviscerate) · it sventrare (To remove or destroy the most important parts of) · ga goiligh (To eviscerate) · mk трбуши (To eviscerate) · it sbudellare (To eviscerate) · fa شکم دریدن (To eviscerate) · pl wybebeszać (To eviscerate) · fi tuhota (To remove or destroy the most important parts of) · gl lañar (To eviscerate) · da gælle (To eviscerate) · fr vider de sa substance (To remove or destroy the most important parts of) · nl uitbranden (To remove or destroy the most important parts of)