Definitions for Gut

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Gut gut

Spelling: [guht]

IPA: /gʌt/

Gut is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in Gut (gtu).

Definitions for Gut

noun

1. the alimentary canal, especially between the pylorus and the anus, or some portion of it. Compare foregut, midgut, hindgut.
2. guts. the bowels or entrails. Informal. courage and fortitude; nerve; determination; stamina: the inner working parts of a machine or device:
3. the belly; stomach; abdomen.
4. the substance forming the case of the intestine; intestinal tissue or fiber:
5. a preparation of the intestines of an animal, used for various purposes, as for violin strings, tennis rackets, or fishing lines.
6. the silken substance taken from a silkworm killed when about to spin its cocoon, used in making snells for fishhooks.
7. a narrow passage, as a channel of water or a defile between hills.
8. Slang. a gut course.

Idioms

1. spill one's guts, Slang. to tell all; lay oneself bare:

adjective

1. Informal. basic or essential: based on instincts or emotions:

verb (used with object)

1. to take out the guts or entrails of; disembowel.
2. to destroy the interior of:
3. to plunder (a house, city, etc.) of contents:
4. to remove the vital or essential parts from:

Origin of Gut

before 1000; Middle English gut, guttes (plural), Old English guttas (plural), akin to gēotan to pour

Examples for Gut

Since coffee can irritate the gut, she suggests opting for herbal tea instead.

These gut windows have their convenience as well as their inconvenience.

Now the gut was fueled not by Romanée-Conti and Château d'Yquem but by brandy--and a hell of a lot of it.

Skin two or three eels, or some flounders; gut and wash them very clean, cut them into small pieces, and put them into a saucepan.

And the brightest sign yet for our future is the increasing demand for hooks and gut.

Take out the meat as whole as possible, split the tail, and remove the gut; and if the inside be not watery, it may be added.

But only once did a work of art really punch me in the gut—and it was as unsalable as they come.

Koenig has not been a sterile, objective narrator; she has openly voiced her biases, concerns, and gut feelings all along.

He covered a probang with the skin of a small eel, or the gut of a lamb or cat.

And while all he says he has spoken to still believe the interrogations saved lives, he said the report was a punch in the gut.