Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gutful

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.12 in modern English

Syllables: gut-ful
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

As much as a gut (abdomen) will hold.

Informal

noun

As much as one is willing to hear or experience; as much as or more than one can bear; too much; a surfeit.

Australian usage; New Zealand usage; British usage; Slang

Example Sentences

"He drank a gutful of beer."
"In every dark corner, fat black bin bags were bent double, throwing up gutfuls of old clothes."
"Several gutfuls of alcoholic laughter-breath rolled around the room."
"Stratonike laughed, great gutfuls of loud raucous laughter that carried across the crowd."
"I've had a gutful of politics lately."
"By Monday afternoon we were finished - loadwise, physically, mentally, you name it, we'd had a gutful of it."

Etymology

From gut + -ful.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: gut

Usage

Inflected Forms

gutfuls (plural) gutsful (plural) gutsful (alternative)

Questions

What does gutful mean?: As much as a gut (abdomen) will hold.
Where does gutful come from?: From gut + -ful.

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