Standard Lemma guide

gut

adj · name · noun · verb · 19 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ɡʌt/
  • US: Inland North Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Northern-England: /ɡʊt/
  • rhymes with -ʌt
  • CMU ARPABET: G AH1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Made of gut.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • a violin with gut strings

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Instinctive.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • gut reaction

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

name

Meaning 3

A surname from German.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, informal, uncountable

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

A person's emotional, visceral self.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • I have a funny feeling in my gut.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

A class that is not demanding or challenging.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, informal, uncountable

Examples

  • You should take Intro Astronomy: it's a gut.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

A narrow passage of water.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • the Gut of Canso

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

Initialism of grand unification theory or grand unified theory.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

verb

Meaning 12

To eviscerate.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

verb

Meaning 13

To remove or destroy the most important parts of.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

verb

Meaning 14

To dishearten; to crush (the spirits of).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • They were gutted by the court's decision.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

noun

Meaning 15

a strong cord made from the intestines of sheep and used in surgery

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: catgut

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: cord

16

noun

Meaning 16

the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: intestine, bowel

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: internal organ, viscus

Narrower terms: small intestine, large intestine

17

noun

Meaning 17

a narrow channel or strait

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: channel

18

verb

Meaning 18

remove the guts of

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • gut the sheep

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: remove, take, take away, withdraw

19

verb

Meaning 19

empty completely; destroy the inside of

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • Gut the building

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: empty

History

Etymology

From Middle English gut, gutte, gotte, from Old English gutt (usually in plural guttas (“guts, entrails”)), from Proto-Germanic *gut-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵhewd- (“to pour”). Related to English gote (“drain”), Old English ġēotan (“to pour”). More at gote, yote. The verb is from Middle English gutten, gotten (“to gut”).

* As a German, Alemannic German, and Jewish surname, variant of Guth. Also compare Gutmann. * As an English surname, from the noun gut. See Gott.

Across languages

Translations

101 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: чревен (čreven) — made of gut
  • Finnish: suoli- — made of gut
  • Finnish: suolesta tehty — made of gut
  • French: en boyau — made of gut
  • German: darmbesaitet — made of gut
  • Bulgarian: инстинктивен (instinktiven) — instinctive
  • Finnish: vaistonvarainen — instinctive
  • French: viscéral — instinctive
  • German: instinktiv — instinctive
  • Catalan: budell — alimentary canal
  • Finnish: ruoansulatuskanava — alimentary canal
  • German: Darm — alimentary canal
  • German: Eingeweide — alimentary canal
  • Plautdietsch: Doarm — alimentary canal
  • Portuguese: tripa — alimentary canal
  • Spanish: tripa — alimentary canal
  • Bulgarian: корем (korem) — abdomen
  • Dutch: buik — abdomen
  • Finnish: maha — abdomen
  • French: panse — abdomen
  • French: bedaine — abdomen
  • French: bide — abdomen
  • German: Bauch — abdomen
  • German: Ranzen — abdomen
  • Italian: pancia — abdomen
  • Korean: 배 (bae) — abdomen
  • Korean: 똥배 (ttongbae) — abdomen
  • Portuguese: pança — abdomen
  • Portuguese: barriga — abdomen
  • Russian: брю́хо (brjúxo) — abdomen
  • Russian: пу́зо (púzo) — abdomen
  • Spanish: tripa — abdomen
  • Spanish: panza — abdomen
  • Spanish: mondongo — abdomen
  • Volapük: bälid — abdomen
  • Zulu: isisu — abdomen
  • Bulgarian: черва (červa) — intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc
  • Dutch: ingewanden — intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc
  • Finnish: suoli — intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc
  • French: boyaux — intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc
  • French: cordes de boyau — intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc
  • German: Darm — intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc
  • German: Darmsaite — intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc
  • Portuguese: tripa — intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc
  • Russian: жилка (žilka) — intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc
  • Russian: жила (žila) — intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc
  • Spanish: tripa — intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc
  • Finnish: vatsa — emotional self
  • Finnish: helppo kurssi — gut course
  • Spanish: maría — gut course
  • Bulgarian: тесен пролив (tesen proliv) — narrow passage of water
  • Finnish: salmi — narrow passage of water
  • Portuguese: estreito — narrow passage of water
  • Portuguese: canal — narrow passage of water
  • Finnish: pussi — sac of silk
  • Ottoman Turkish: مسینه (mesine) — sac of silk
  • Bulgarian: изкормвам (izkormvam) — To eviscerate
  • Catalan: estripar — To eviscerate
  • Catalan: esbudellar — To eviscerate
  • Czech: vykuchat — To eviscerate
  • Danish: gælle — To eviscerate
  • Dutch: uithalen — To eviscerate
  • Finnish: perata — To eviscerate
  • French: vider — To eviscerate
  • French: éviscérer — To eviscerate
  • Galician: estripar — To eviscerate
  • Galician: escochar — To eviscerate
  • Galician: lañar — To eviscerate
  • German: ausnehmen — To eviscerate
  • German: ausweiden — To eviscerate
  • Ido: vakuigar — To eviscerate
  • Ingrian: tehä — To eviscerate
  • Irish: goiligh — To eviscerate
  • Italian: sviscerare — To eviscerate
  • Italian: sbudellare — To eviscerate
  • Italian: sventrare — To eviscerate
  • Latin: exenterō — To eviscerate
  • Macedonian: трбуши (trbuši) — To eviscerate
  • Māori: tuaki — To eviscerate
  • Māori: huke — To eviscerate
  • Norman: êbieilli — To eviscerate
  • Persian: شکم دریدن (šekam daridan) — To eviscerate
  • Polish: bebeszyć — To eviscerate
  • Polish: wybebeszać — To eviscerate
  • Polish: wybebeszyć — To eviscerate
  • Russian: потроши́ть (potrošítʹ) — To eviscerate
  • Russian: вы́потрошить (výpotrošitʹ) — To eviscerate
  • Spanish: destripar — To eviscerate
  • Welsh: diberfeddu — To eviscerate
  • Bulgarian: изтърбушвам (iztǎrbušvam) — To remove or destroy the most important parts of
  • Dutch: uitbranden — To remove or destroy the most important parts of
  • Dutch: vernietigen — To remove or destroy the most important parts of
  • Finnish: hävittää — To remove or destroy the most important parts of
  • Finnish: tuhota — To remove or destroy the most important parts of
  • French: vider de sa substance — To remove or destroy the most important parts of
  • French: délabrer — To remove or destroy the most important parts of
  • German: ausweiden — To remove or destroy the most important parts of
  • Hungarian: kibelez — To remove or destroy the most important parts of
  • Italian: sventrare — To remove or destroy the most important parts of
  • Italian: stravolgere — To remove or destroy the most important parts of
  • Vietnamese: rút ruột — To remove or destroy the most important parts of