GUTS

backbone, grit, guts, moxie, sand, gumption

(noun) fortitude and determination; “he didn’t have the guts to try it”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

GUTs

plural of GUT

Anagrams

• Gust, gust, tugs

Noun

guts

plural of gut

The entrails or contents of the abdomen.

Synonyms: entrails, guttings, innards, insides, viscera

(by extension, informal) Courage; determination.

Synonyms: balls (vulgar), nerve, pluck, Thesaurus:courage

(informal) Content, substance.

(informal) The essential, core parts.

(informal) One's innermost feelings.

Verb

guts

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gut

Verb

guts (third-person singular simple present gutses, present participle gutsing, simple past and past participle gutsed)

(informal) To show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out).

Anagrams

• Gust, gust, tugs

Source: Wiktionary


GUT

Gut, n. Etym: [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 CÆcum, n. (b).

Gut, v. 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 bouse. Tom Brown, of facetious memory, having gutted a proper name of its vowels, used it as freely as he pleased. Addison.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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