gut
/ɡʌt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.02 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "You've developed quite a beer gut since I last met you."
- "I have a funny feeling in my gut."
- "You should take Intro Astronomy: it's a gut."
- "the Gut of Canso"
- "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."
- "FRAE Team-Gut to Whitley, wi' coals black and brown, For the Amphitrite loaded, the keel had gyen down;"
Etymology
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”).