gutty
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.43 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who works in a slaughterhouse cutting out the internal organs.
noun
An urchin or delinquent.
noun
Example Sentences
- "A trim-middled hog will have a higher dressing percentage than a wasty, gutty, paunchy, heavy-middled hog."
- "Mr Donaldson continued to work during the season as a gutty in the beefhouse at the Lorneville plant, notwithstanding a high level of pain and/or discomfort which he persistently experienced from his elbow disorder."
- "I still had in my possession thirteen sets of hickories and a good stock of gutty golf balls, […]"
Etymology
From goutte + -y, or anglicization of (Old or Middle French) goutté, ultimately from Latin gutta (“drop (of a liquid)”) (also the ultimate source of English goutte and French goutte). Compare guttated.
Origin
- Source language: Latin