Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

come a gutser

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: come a gutser
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

1

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To do a belly flop; to fall flat on one's face.

Australian usage; New Zealand usage; Slang

verb

To fail miserably; to make a huge mistake; to fall flat on one's face.

Australian usage; New Zealand usage; Slang

Example Sentences

"Slippery as a butcher's apron it is, and I comes a gutser twice before I gets down to the stag."
"You took off up Main Street past the church, jumped the gutter, two cars and a four-foot fence, and finally come a gutser in the gully below the cop station."
"“Come off it, skipper. There's nobody to miss us if this scow comes a gutser. We're expendable, even more so than the average Rim Runner officer. And that's saying plenty.”"
"Until he tripped again and came a gutser. This time he stayed down."
"Ole Fritz keeps on tryin' ter feel our possies at night with small patrols, an' they tried ter raid us two nights ago, but came a gutser, 'coz we hopped out an' met 'em, an' they put their 'ands up."
"The Government has come a gutser there, and it will come a gutser in the health area when it tries to put the user-pays principle in operation."

Etymology

From falling on ones gut, or belly.

Usage

Inflected Forms

comes a gutser (present, singular) coming a gutser (participle, present) came a gutser (past) come a gutzer (alternative)

Phrases

come a cropper come a smeller

Frequently Paired Words

come a cropper come a smeller

Questions

What does come a gutser mean?: To do a belly flop; to fall flat on one's face.
Where does come a gutser come from?: From falling on ones gut, or belly.

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