İngilizce dilinde "gut" tanımı

noun

1. The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.

2. (informal) The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged.

   • You've developed quite a beer gut since I last met you.

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 class that is not demanding or challenging.

   • 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.

verb

1. (transitive) To eviscerate.

   • Holonym: field dress
   • The fisherman guts the fish before cooking them.
   • The lioness gutted her prey.

2. (transitive) To remove or destroy the most important parts of.

   • Fire gutted the building.
   • Congress gutted the welfare bill.

3. (transitive) To dishearten; to crush (the spirits of).

   • They were gutted by the court's decision.

adjective

1. Made of gut.

   • a violin with gut strings

2. Instinctive.

   • gut reaction