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Webster 1913 Edition

Gut

Gut

,
Noun.
[OE.
gut
,
got
, AS.
gut
, prob. orig., a channel, and akin to
geótan
to pour. See
FOUND
to cast.]
1.
A narrow passage of water;
as, the
Gut
of Canso
.
2.
An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (
pl.
) bowels; entrails.
3.
One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See
Catgut
.
4.
The sac of silk taken from a silkworm (when ready to spin its cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. This, when dry, is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fish line.
Blind gut
.
See
Caecum
,
Noun.
(b)
.

Gut

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Gutted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Gutting
.]
1.
To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.
2.
To plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior or contents of;
as, a mob
gutted
the house
.
Tom Brown, of facetious memory, having
gutted
a proper
name of its vowels, used it as freely as he pleased.
Addison.

Webster 1828 Edition

Gut

GUT

,
Noun.
The intestinal canal of an animal; a pipe or tube extending, with many circumvolutions, from the pylorus to the vent. This pipe is composed of three coats,and is attached to the body by a membrane called the mesentery. This canal is of different sizes in different parts, and takes different names. The thin and small parts are called the duodenum, the ilium, and the jejunum; the large and thick parts are called the eaecum, the colon, the rectum. By this pipe, the undigested and unabsorbed parts of food are conveyed from the stomach and discharged. This word in the plural is applied to the whole mass formed by its natural convolutions in the abdomen.
2.
The stomach; the receptacle of food.
3.
Gluttony; love of gormandizing.

GUT

,
Verb.
T.
To take out the bowels; to eviscerate.
1.
To plunder of contents.
Gutta serena, in medicine, amaurosis; blindness occasioned by a diseased retina.

Definition 2024

Gut

Gut

See also: gut, guts, and GUT

German

Noun

Gut n ‎(genitive Gutes or Guts, plural Güter)

  1. commodity, property, possessions, goods
  2. a large farmstead, estate related to agriculture.

Declension

Synonyms

  • (estate): Landgut, Gutshof

Derived terms

Related terms

gut

gut

See also: Gut, GUT, and guts

English

Noun

gut ‎(plural guts)

  1. The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.
  2. (informal) The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged
    beer gut
  3. (uncountable) The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.
  4. A person's emotional, visceral self.
    I have a funny feeling in my gut.
  5. (informal) A gut course
    You should take Intro Astronomy: it's a gut.
  6. A narrow passage of water.
    the Gut of Canso
  7. The sac of silk taken from a silkworm when ready to spin its cocoon, for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. When dry, it is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fishing line.

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Derived terms

Translations

Verb

gut ‎(third-person singular simple present guts, present participle gutting, simple past and past participle gutted)

  1. (transitive) To eviscerate.
  2. (transitive) To remove or destroy the most important parts of.
    • fire gutted the building
    • Congress gutted the welfare bill.

Translations

Adjective

gut ‎(comparative more gut, superlative most gut)

  1. Made of gut, e.g., a violin with gut strings
  2. Instinctive, e.g., a gut reaction

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Central Franconian

Alternative forms

  • got (northern Moselle Franconian)
  • jot (Ripuarian)

Etymology

From Old High German (*)guod, northern variant of guot.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /guːt/

Adjective

gut ‎(masculine gude, feminine gut, comparative besser, superlative et beste)

  1. (southern Moselle Franconian) good

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡut/, [ɡ̊ud̥]

Etymology 1

From Norwegian gutt.

Noun

gut c (singular definite gutten, plural indefinite gutter)

  1. boy, lad, bloke
Inflection

Etymology 2

From English gut.

Noun

gut c (singular definite gutten, not used in plural form)

  1. gut (intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc)

German

Alternative forms

  • gůt (Early New High German)

Etymology

From Old High German guot, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ-. Cognate to Dutch and West Frisian goed, English good, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish god.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡuːt/ (standard)
  • IPA(key): /ɡʊt/ (colloquial, generally only for the interjection)
  • Rhymes: -uːt

Adjective

gut ‎(comparative besser, superlative am besten)

  1. good

Antonyms

Derived terms

Declension

Comparative forms of gut
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter all genders
predicative er ist besser sie ist besser es ist besser sie sind besser
strong declension
(without article)		 nominative besserer bessere besseres bessere
genitive besseren besserer besseren besserer
dative besserem besserer besserem besseren
accusative besseren bessere besseres bessere
weak declension
(with definite article)		 nominative der bessere die bessere das bessere die besseren
genitive des besseren der besseren des besseren der besseren
dative dem besseren der besseren dem besseren den besseren
accusative den besseren die bessere das bessere die besseren
mixed declension
(with indefinite article)		 nominative ein besserer eine bessere ein besseres (keine) besseren
genitive eines besseren einer besseren eines besseren (keiner) besseren
dative einem besseren einer besseren einem besseren (keinen) besseren
accusative einen besseren eine bessere ein besseres (keine) besseren

Adverb

gut ‎(comparative besser, superlative am besten)

  1. well
    Die Mannschaft hat gut gespielt.
    The team played well.

Interjection

gut

  1. okay, all right, now then
    Gut, dann fangen wir mal an.
    All right, then let's get started.

Lojban

Rafsi

gut

  1. rafsi of gunta.

Norwegian Nynorsk

gut

Alternative forms

Etymology

Possibly from Dutch guit ‎(“troublemaker”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /gʉːt/

Noun

gut m ‎(definite singular guten, indefinite plural gutar, definite plural gutane)

  1. boy (young male)

References

“gut” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romansch

Noun

gut m (plural guts)

  1. drop

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English good.

Adverb

gut

  1. well

Related terms

Welsh

Pronunciation

Noun

gut

  1. Soft mutation of cut.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡuːt/

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