guttery en · ADJ
Etymology
From gutter + -y.
Meanings
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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 of pale pink soap.
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.:
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(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 strobe lights flashing off the band's shit-eating grins.
2005 October 21, Monica Kendrick, “Wait for It”, in Chicago Reader:
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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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more guttery | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most guttery | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |