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herring-gutted en · ADJ
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Of a person, thin; emaciated.
"Have you not a herring there, you herring-gutted scoundrel?"
1837, Frederick Marryat, The Dog Fiend, Or Snarleyyow, London: George Routledge and Sons, page 7, column 1:"Instead of being a rollicking bull-necked quarterstaff player with an eye for a wench and a good but untutored voice for roaring a roundelay, he's nothing but a weasel-faced herring-gutted wowser deliberately stuck in a cell to mislead travellers."
1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 42:
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