gut

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡʌt/
• (US Inland North)

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• Rhymes: -ʌt

gut (countable and uncountable, 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 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.

• (alimentary canal, intestine): alimentary canal, digestive system, guts, intestine, tharm, innards
• (abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged): abdomen, beer belly, (enlarged), beer gut (UK, enlarged), belly, paunch (enlarged), potbelly (enlarged), stomach, tum, tummy
• (intestines of an animal used to make strings): catgut

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

1. (transitive) To eviscerate.

   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.

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

• blood-and-guts

• UTG, tug

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ɡuːt/

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

1. (southern Moselle Franconian) good

• IPA^(key): /ɡut/, [ɡ̊ud̥]

From Norwegian gutt.

gut c (singular definite gutten, plural indefinite gutter)

1. boy, lad, bloke

From English gut.

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)

• gůt (Early New High German)

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

• IPA^(key): /ɡuːt/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /ɡʊt/ (colloquial, generally only for the interjection)
• (Germany)

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• (Austria)

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• Rhymes: -uːt

gut (comparative besser, superlative am besten)

1. good (acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral)
2. good (effective; useful)
3. good (fortunate)
4. good (having a particularly pleasant taste)
5. all right, fair (satisfactory)
6. good (full; entire; at least as much as)

• schlecht (qualitatively or ethically bad)
• böse (morally evil)

• Gutmensch
• ungut
• gut gehen, gutgehen

gut (comparative besser, superlative am besten)

1. well (accurately, competently, satisfactorily)

   Die Mannschaft hat gut gespielt.

   The team played well.

2. a little more than (with measurements)

   Ich wohne seit gut zwanzig Jahren in Berlin.

   I've lived in Berlin for over twenty years/for a good twenty years.

   Das Bett ist gut zwei Meter lang.

   The bed is a little over two meters long.

   Antonym: knapp

gut

1. okay, all right, now then

   Gut, dann fangen wir mal an.

   All right, then let's get started.

• gut in Duden online

gut

1. Alternative form of gutte

Possibly from Dutch guit (“troublemaker”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡʉːt/

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

1. a boy (young male)

• ballgut

• gutt (Bokmål)

“gut” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Compare German gut, Dutch goed, English good.

gut (comparative besser, superlative bescht)

1. good
2. kind

• besser
• bescht

gut m (plural guts)

1. drop

From English good.

gut

1. well

• gutpela
• nogut

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ɡɨ̞t/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ɡɪt/

gut

1. Soft mutation of cut.

• IPA^(key): /ɡʉːt/

gut m

1. A boy (young male.)