{ "gut":{ "antonyms":[ "clean", "disembowel", "draw", "eviscerate" ], "definitions":{ ": arising from one's inmost self : visceral":[ "a gut reaction" ], ": belly , abdomen":[], ": bowels , entrails":[ "\u2014 usually used in plural fish guts" ], ": catgut":[], ": eviscerate":[], ": fortitude and stamina in coping with what alarms, repels, or discourages : courage , pluck":[ "had the guts to run for public office" ], ": gut course":[], ": having strong impact or immediate relevance":[ "gut issues" ], ": persevere":[], ": the basic visceral, emotional, or instinctual part of a person":[ "She knew in her gut that he was lying.", "Consult more than one financial adviser before making a final choice, and trust your gut .", "\u2014 Quentin Fottrell", "My gut says this is, overall, a terrible idea.", "\u2014 Erica Buist", "\u2014 often used before another noun making a gut decision a gut feeling \"Tony's a very driven guy, and he makes a lot of decisions based on gut instinct,\" \u2026 \u2014 Tom Nides" ], ": the inner essential parts":[ "the guts of a car" ], ": the sac of silk taken from a silkworm ready to spin its cocoon and drawn out into a thread for use as a snell":[], ": to destroy the essential power or effectiveness of":[ "inflation gutting the economy" ], ": to destroy the inside of":[ "fire gutted the building" ], ": to extract all the essential passages or portions from":[], "grand unified theory; grand unification theory":[] }, "examples":[ "Noun", "the guts of the fish", "the guts of a machine", "the guts of a business deal", "That decision took a lot of guts .", "I didn't have the guts to do it.", "Verb", "The salmon is already gutted and filleted.", "Critics claim that these reforms will gut the law.", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "The team found that the carbon monoxide could alleviate gut damage and colon inflammation. \u2014 Akila Muthukumar, STAT , 3 July 2022", "That\u2019s because lager beer appears to increase the diversity of your gut bacteria. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 26 June 2022", "Feeling truly convicted about a direction requires head, heart and gut alignment. \u2014 Misty Dykema, Forbes , 24 June 2022", "Ambrose sees this as further proof that his gut instincts were correct. \u2014 Joe Leydon, Variety , 22 June 2022", "And research has found that sarecycline doesn\u2019t affect gut bacteria the same way that doxycycline or minocycline do. \u2014 Stacey Colino, Washington Post , 21 June 2022", "All these things are worked out for some tissues, like the gut , but not in the respiratory tract. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 21 June 2022", "While chia seeds are indeed beneficial in a balanced diet, their role in improving your body's gut and digestive health may be misinterpreted by TikTok users who come across the #InternalShower recipe. \u2014 Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping , 21 June 2022", "Instead, members of Chineke! outfitted their usual modern instruments with gut strings and swapped their bows for lighter-weight Baroque equivalents. \u2014 Barbara Jepson, WSJ , 21 June 2022", "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective", "After the larvae fed on the bait, the essential oils inside caused neurotoxicity and mid- gut and tracheal damage, among other morphological changes not yet recorded in literature in larvae belonging to the Aedes mosquitospecies. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 5 May 2022", "In one of the studies, Nagler and coworkers collected gut bacteria from the feces of healthy and milk-allergic babies and put those collections of microbes into the digestive tracts of germ-free mice. \u2014 Esther Landhuis, Scientific American , 23 May 2020", "Some of this was simply a gut public-health reaction to the sudden spread of the virus. \u2014 Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor , 15 Apr. 2020", "But as their descriptions continue into more specific and graphic territory, that veneer quickly dissolves into unmistakable, gut -wrenching exploitation. \u2014 Andrew Unterberger, Billboard , 4 Mar. 2019", "The researchers hope to better understand how gut bacteria protect their insect hosts. \u2014 Popular Science , 5 Feb. 2020", "Still, Hollywood fancies itself as a town that operates on gut instinct rather than algorithms, for better or for worse. \u2014 Tatiana Siegel, The Hollywood Reporter , 8 Jan. 2020", "Priorities can then be set on a sounder basis than gut instinct, sentimental appeal or the political clout of the people hurt or helped. \u2014 The Economist , 16 Nov. 2019", "That Hood was the latest Moda Center target, however, was especially gut -wrenching. \u2014 oregonlive , 7 Dec. 2019", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "In the coming days, the Supreme Court will rule on a landmark case that could gut the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s ability to regulate greenhouse-gas pollution under the Clean Air Act. \u2014 Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic , 15 June 2022", "Following their successful effort to gull California voters into endorsing their method of exploiting their drivers and field workers, Uber, Lyft and other gig companies expanded their campaign to gut labor protections into other states. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 15 June 2022", "The buyers want location, and have plans to gut the house. \u2014 Longreads , 20 Apr. 2022", "To investigate how superworms\u2019 gut microbiome reacts to a purely plastic diet, the researchers split 135 of the creatures into three groups: one was fed only wheat bran, another was fed only soft polystyrene, and the third was given nothing. \u2014 Fionna Samuels, Scientific American , 9 June 2022", "The method combines host DNA and gut microbiome analysis with open source machine-learning software. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 5 Feb. 2022", "Rhodes went on to gut out a valiant performance in an excellent match, where fans fervently rallied behind the top star with Rollins dominating Rhodes (and his pec). \u2014 Alfred Konuwa, Forbes , 6 June 2022", "Some want to gut the council, which was designed to be check on the power of the county executive but has proven to be full of toadies who rubber stamp the executive\u2019s ideas. \u2014 cleveland , 4 June 2022", "Probiotics are live bacteria that are beneficial to gut health, and coffee is a rich source of antioxidants. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 31 May 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Verb", "1964, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective", "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":"Noun" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English, from Old English guttas , plural; probably akin to Old English g\u0113otan to pour":"Noun, Adjective, and Verb" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8g\u0259t" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "entrails", "innards", "inside(s)", "inwards", "viscera", "vitals" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-161700", "type":[ "abbreviation", "adjective", "noun", "transitive verb", "verb" ] }, "gutless":{ "antonyms":[ "brave", "courageous", "daring", "dauntless", "doughty", "fearless", "gallant", "greathearted", "gutsy", "hardy", "heroic", "heroical", "intrepid", "lionhearted", "stalwart", "stout", "stouthearted", "valiant", "valorous" ], "definitions":{ ": lacking courage : cowardly":[], ": lacking significance or vitality":[] }, "examples":[ "a gutless attack on a writer who is now deceased and unable to defend herself", "Recent Examples on the Web", "But yes: If Carlson is indeed snarking about Hannity\u2019s loyalty to Trump in whispers to media reporters, that\u2019s gutless . \u2014 Washington Post , 24 June 2021", "Nothing was more gutless than turning Rey (Daisy Ridley), a galactic nobody with great Force power into Emperor Palpatine's (Ian McDiarmid) granddaughter. \u2014 Ew Staff, EW.com , 4 May 2021", "The gutless , undisciplined first quarter shoved the Cavs into a 23-point hole and forced them to fight back the rest of the night. \u2014 Chris Fedor, cleveland , 20 Apr. 2021", "Someone at Chevrolet decided that the failing Corvair could be repositioned as an ideal runabout for women: rear-engined and thus light-steering, gutless enough not to frighten a spinster, cute as a button in pastel colors. \u2014 Bruce Mccall, The New Yorker , 12 Dec. 2020", "The gutless method of cleaning big game is overrated. \u2014 Will Brantley, Field & Stream , 20 Nov. 2020", "The worst was the seemingly gutless reaction from teammates as their quarterback lay helmetless and helpless. \u2014 Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News , 25 Oct. 2020", "But to almost take a guy's life, especially in front of one's kids, that wasn't resisting, in his back at point-blank range, is a heartless and gutless situation. \u2014 Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY , 25 Aug. 2020", "But to almost take a guy's life, especially in front of one's kids, that wasn't resisting, in his back at point-blank range, is a heartless and gutless situation. \u2014 Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY , 25 Aug. 2020" ], "first_known_use":{ "1900, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8g\u0259t-l\u0259s" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "chicken", "chicken-livered", "chickenhearted", "cowardly", "craven", "dastardly", "lily-livered", "milk-livered", "poltroon", "pusillanimous", "recreant", "spineless", "unheroic", "yellow" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-073642", "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ] }, "gutlessness":{ "antonyms":[ "brave", "courageous", "daring", "dauntless", "doughty", "fearless", "gallant", "greathearted", "gutsy", "hardy", "heroic", "heroical", "intrepid", "lionhearted", "stalwart", "stout", "stouthearted", "valiant", "valorous" ], "definitions":{ ": lacking courage : cowardly":[], ": lacking significance or vitality":[] }, "examples":[ "a gutless attack on a writer who is now deceased and unable to defend herself", "Recent Examples on the Web", "But yes: If Carlson is indeed snarking about Hannity\u2019s loyalty to Trump in whispers to media reporters, that\u2019s gutless . \u2014 Washington Post , 24 June 2021", "Nothing was more gutless than turning Rey (Daisy Ridley), a galactic nobody with great Force power into Emperor Palpatine's (Ian McDiarmid) granddaughter. \u2014 Ew Staff, EW.com , 4 May 2021", "The gutless , undisciplined first quarter shoved the Cavs into a 23-point hole and forced them to fight back the rest of the night. \u2014 Chris Fedor, cleveland , 20 Apr. 2021", "Someone at Chevrolet decided that the failing Corvair could be repositioned as an ideal runabout for women: rear-engined and thus light-steering, gutless enough not to frighten a spinster, cute as a button in pastel colors. \u2014 Bruce Mccall, The New Yorker , 12 Dec. 2020", "The gutless method of cleaning big game is overrated. \u2014 Will Brantley, Field & Stream , 20 Nov. 2020", "The worst was the seemingly gutless reaction from teammates as their quarterback lay helmetless and helpless. \u2014 Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News , 25 Oct. 2020", "But to almost take a guy's life, especially in front of one's kids, that wasn't resisting, in his back at point-blank range, is a heartless and gutless situation. \u2014 Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY , 25 Aug. 2020", "But to almost take a guy's life, especially in front of one's kids, that wasn't resisting, in his back at point-blank range, is a heartless and gutless situation. \u2014 Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY , 25 Aug. 2020" ], "first_known_use":{ "1900, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8g\u0259t-l\u0259s" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "chicken", "chicken-livered", "chickenhearted", "cowardly", "craven", "dastardly", "lily-livered", "milk-livered", "poltroon", "pusillanimous", "recreant", "spineless", "unheroic", "yellow" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-101845", "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ] }, "guts":{ "antonyms":[ "clean", "disembowel", "draw", "eviscerate" ], "definitions":{ ": arising from one's inmost self : visceral":[ "a gut reaction" ], ": belly , abdomen":[], ": bowels , entrails":[ "\u2014 usually used in plural fish guts" ], ": catgut":[], ": eviscerate":[], ": fortitude and stamina in coping with what alarms, repels, or discourages : courage , pluck":[ "had the guts to run for public office" ], ": gut course":[], ": having strong impact or immediate relevance":[ "gut issues" ], ": persevere":[], ": the basic visceral, emotional, or instinctual part of a person":[ "She knew in her gut that he was lying.", "Consult more than one financial adviser before making a final choice, and trust your gut .", "\u2014 Quentin Fottrell", "My gut says this is, overall, a terrible idea.", "\u2014 Erica Buist", "\u2014 often used before another noun making a gut decision a gut feeling \"Tony's a very driven guy, and he makes a lot of decisions based on gut instinct,\" \u2026 \u2014 Tom Nides" ], ": the inner essential parts":[ "the guts of a car" ], ": the sac of silk taken from a silkworm ready to spin its cocoon and drawn out into a thread for use as a snell":[], ": to destroy the essential power or effectiveness of":[ "inflation gutting the economy" ], ": to destroy the inside of":[ "fire gutted the building" ], ": to extract all the essential passages or portions from":[], "grand unified theory; grand unification theory":[] }, "examples":[ "Noun", "the guts of the fish", "the guts of a machine", "the guts of a business deal", "That decision took a lot of guts .", "I didn't have the guts to do it.", "Verb", "The salmon is already gutted and filleted.", "Critics claim that these reforms will gut the law.", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "The team found that the carbon monoxide could alleviate gut damage and colon inflammation. \u2014 Akila Muthukumar, STAT , 3 July 2022", "That\u2019s because lager beer appears to increase the diversity of your gut bacteria. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 26 June 2022", "Feeling truly convicted about a direction requires head, heart and gut alignment. \u2014 Misty Dykema, Forbes , 24 June 2022", "Ambrose sees this as further proof that his gut instincts were correct. \u2014 Joe Leydon, Variety , 22 June 2022", "And research has found that sarecycline doesn\u2019t affect gut bacteria the same way that doxycycline or minocycline do. \u2014 Stacey Colino, Washington Post , 21 June 2022", "All these things are worked out for some tissues, like the gut , but not in the respiratory tract. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 21 June 2022", "While chia seeds are indeed beneficial in a balanced diet, their role in improving your body's gut and digestive health may be misinterpreted by TikTok users who come across the #InternalShower recipe. \u2014 Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping , 21 June 2022", "Instead, members of Chineke! outfitted their usual modern instruments with gut strings and swapped their bows for lighter-weight Baroque equivalents. \u2014 Barbara Jepson, WSJ , 21 June 2022", "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective", "After the larvae fed on the bait, the essential oils inside caused neurotoxicity and mid- gut and tracheal damage, among other morphological changes not yet recorded in literature in larvae belonging to the Aedes mosquitospecies. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 5 May 2022", "In one of the studies, Nagler and coworkers collected gut bacteria from the feces of healthy and milk-allergic babies and put those collections of microbes into the digestive tracts of germ-free mice. \u2014 Esther Landhuis, Scientific American , 23 May 2020", "Some of this was simply a gut public-health reaction to the sudden spread of the virus. \u2014 Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor , 15 Apr. 2020", "But as their descriptions continue into more specific and graphic territory, that veneer quickly dissolves into unmistakable, gut -wrenching exploitation. \u2014 Andrew Unterberger, Billboard , 4 Mar. 2019", "The researchers hope to better understand how gut bacteria protect their insect hosts. \u2014 Popular Science , 5 Feb. 2020", "Still, Hollywood fancies itself as a town that operates on gut instinct rather than algorithms, for better or for worse. \u2014 Tatiana Siegel, The Hollywood Reporter , 8 Jan. 2020", "Priorities can then be set on a sounder basis than gut instinct, sentimental appeal or the political clout of the people hurt or helped. \u2014 The Economist , 16 Nov. 2019", "That Hood was the latest Moda Center target, however, was especially gut -wrenching. \u2014 oregonlive , 7 Dec. 2019", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "In the coming days, the Supreme Court will rule on a landmark case that could gut the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s ability to regulate greenhouse-gas pollution under the Clean Air Act. \u2014 Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic , 15 June 2022", "Following their successful effort to gull California voters into endorsing their method of exploiting their drivers and field workers, Uber, Lyft and other gig companies expanded their campaign to gut labor protections into other states. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 15 June 2022", "The buyers want location, and have plans to gut the house. \u2014 Longreads , 20 Apr. 2022", "To investigate how superworms\u2019 gut microbiome reacts to a purely plastic diet, the researchers split 135 of the creatures into three groups: one was fed only wheat bran, another was fed only soft polystyrene, and the third was given nothing. \u2014 Fionna Samuels, Scientific American , 9 June 2022", "The method combines host DNA and gut microbiome analysis with open source machine-learning software. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 5 Feb. 2022", "Rhodes went on to gut out a valiant performance in an excellent match, where fans fervently rallied behind the top star with Rollins dominating Rhodes (and his pec). \u2014 Alfred Konuwa, Forbes , 6 June 2022", "Some want to gut the council, which was designed to be check on the power of the county executive but has proven to be full of toadies who rubber stamp the executive\u2019s ideas. \u2014 cleveland , 4 June 2022", "Probiotics are live bacteria that are beneficial to gut health, and coffee is a rich source of antioxidants. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 31 May 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Verb", "1964, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective", "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":"Noun" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English, from Old English guttas , plural; probably akin to Old English g\u0113otan to pour":"Noun, Adjective, and Verb" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8g\u0259t" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "entrails", "innards", "inside(s)", "inwards", "viscera", "vitals" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-050850", "type":[ "abbreviation", "adjective", "noun", "transitive verb", "verb" ] }, "gutsiness":{ "antonyms":[ "unadventurous", "unenterprising" ], "definitions":{ ": expressing or characterized by basic physical senses or passions":[ "gutsy macho talk", "gutsy country blues" ], ": marked by courage, pluck, or determination":[ "a gutsy little fighter", "a gutsy decision" ], ": rough or plain in style : not bland or sophisticated":[ "a gutsy soup" ] }, "examples":[ "That was a very gutsy decision.", "a gutsy coach willing to let her team improvise on the court", "Recent Examples on the Web", "The Camels got a gutsy performance from Jake Napier, who pitched four innings, striking out nine and allowing four hits and four runs, two earned. \u2014 James Weber, The Enquirer , 5 June 2022", "Dallas pulled off a gutsy ten-point win in Game 4 at home, avoiding an embarrassing sweep. \u2014 Xl Media, cleveland , 26 May 2022", "Tiger Woods will play the weekend after making the cut with a gutsy second-round performance Friday. \u2014 Matt Eppers, USA TODAY , 21 May 2022", "Visually impaired cross-country skier and biathlete Dmytro Suiarko pulled out a gutsy performance in the 2022 Beijing Paralympic Games while representing Ukraine. \u2014 Justin Birnbaum, Forbes , 3 May 2022", "The Kings ended their four-year playoff drought with a gutsy performance down the final stretch of the regular season to secure third in the Pacific Division and a showdown with the Edmonton Oilers in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 May 2022", "In her rooms, fine European antiques meet mirrored walls and gutsy artwork. \u2014 The Editors Of Elle Decor, ELLE Decor , 1 June 2022", "It\u2019s a gutsy piece of acting that\u2019s sufficiently intense to raise the stakes and yet sufficiently warm and empathetic to tap into the anxiety that is plaguing so many people, after the pandemic, if that is even the right phrase. \u2014 Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune , 1 June 2022", "Christopher Backes has embraced a gutsy trade: betting against U.S. government debt. \u2014 Matt Grossman, WSJ , 27 May 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "circa 1893, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8g\u0259t-s\u0113" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "adventuresome", "adventurous", "audacious", "bold", "daring", "dashing", "emboldened", "enterprising", "free-swinging", "hardy", "nerved", "nervy", "venturesome", "venturous" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-032037", "type":[ "adjective", "adverb", "noun" ] }, "gutsy":{ "antonyms":[ "unadventurous", "unenterprising" ], "definitions":{ ": expressing or characterized by basic physical senses or passions":[ "gutsy macho talk", "gutsy country blues" ], ": marked by courage, pluck, or determination":[ "a gutsy little fighter", "a gutsy decision" ], ": rough or plain in style : not bland or sophisticated":[ "a gutsy soup" ] }, "examples":[ "That was a very gutsy decision.", "a gutsy coach willing to let her team improvise on the court", "Recent Examples on the Web", "The Camels got a gutsy performance from Jake Napier, who pitched four innings, striking out nine and allowing four hits and four runs, two earned. \u2014 James Weber, The Enquirer , 5 June 2022", "Dallas pulled off a gutsy ten-point win in Game 4 at home, avoiding an embarrassing sweep. \u2014 Xl Media, cleveland , 26 May 2022", "Tiger Woods will play the weekend after making the cut with a gutsy second-round performance Friday. \u2014 Matt Eppers, USA TODAY , 21 May 2022", "Visually impaired cross-country skier and biathlete Dmytro Suiarko pulled out a gutsy performance in the 2022 Beijing Paralympic Games while representing Ukraine. \u2014 Justin Birnbaum, Forbes , 3 May 2022", "The Kings ended their four-year playoff drought with a gutsy performance down the final stretch of the regular season to secure third in the Pacific Division and a showdown with the Edmonton Oilers in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 May 2022", "In her rooms, fine European antiques meet mirrored walls and gutsy artwork. \u2014 The Editors Of Elle Decor, ELLE Decor , 1 June 2022", "It\u2019s a gutsy piece of acting that\u2019s sufficiently intense to raise the stakes and yet sufficiently warm and empathetic to tap into the anxiety that is plaguing so many people, after the pandemic, if that is even the right phrase. \u2014 Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune , 1 June 2022", "Christopher Backes has embraced a gutsy trade: betting against U.S. government debt. \u2014 Matt Grossman, WSJ , 27 May 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "circa 1893, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8g\u0259t-s\u0113" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "adventuresome", "adventurous", "audacious", "bold", "daring", "dashing", "emboldened", "enterprising", "free-swinging", "hardy", "nerved", "nervy", "venturesome", "venturous" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-004102", "type":[ "adjective", "adverb", "noun" ] }, "gutter":{ "antonyms":[ "bawdy", "blue", "coarse", "crude", "dirty", "filthy", "foul", "gross", "impure", "indecent", "lascivious", "lewd", "locker-room", "nasty", "obscene", "pornographic", "porny", "profane", "raunchy", "ribald", "smutty", "stag", "trashy", "unprintable", "vulgar", "wanton", "X-rated" ], "definitions":{ ": a low area (as at the edge of a street) to carry off surface water (as to a sewer)":[], ": a trough along the eaves to catch and carry off rainwater":[], ": a trough or groove to catch and direct something":[ "the gutters of a bowling alley" ], ": a white space formed by the adjoining inside margins of two facing pages (as of a book)":[], ": the lowest or most vulgar level or condition of human life":[], ": to cut or wear gutters in":[], ": to flow in rivulets":[], ": to incline downward in a draft":[ "the candle flame guttering" ], ": to melt away through a channel out of the side of the cup hollowed out by the burning wick":[], ": to provide with a gutter":[] }, "examples":[ "Noun", "one of his chores is to clean leaves and sticks out of the gutters before winter sets in", "rainwater running off the road into the gutters", "Adjective", "a novel that does a good job of rendering the gutter language of that stratum of society", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "After the election, McKinnon created an evil, gutter -dwelling troll based on Kellyanne Conway, senior counselor to Trump. \u2014 Dennis Romero, NBC News , 22 May 2022", "Gutters Unlimited specializes in residential and commercial gutter installation services in the Cleveland area. \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 26 Jan. 2022", "At times, this sensuous lyricism even spills over into outright dreaminess, as the gutter of a book turns into the crevice between warm thighs or when Ahmed imagines a stylus drawing ink across his body, and eventually drawing blood from a wound. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Variety , 7 Nov. 2021", "Because Albright was busy with school during the day, the club\u2019s caddie master would leave a key to the warming hut in the gutter , allowing Albright to practice her figure eights at night, illuminated only by the moon. \u2014 Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com , 28 May 2022", "The connector project, Cooper said, would involve a four-lane curb and gutter highway from I-759\u2032s end at George Wallace Drive to U.S. 278. \u2014 William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al , 4 May 2022", "The woodpecker is back, hammering the gutter above my bedroom window every dawn in a staccato that reverberates through my morning fog louder than last night\u2019s burgundy. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Mar. 2022", "Based on my experience, anything that lands on it will quickly end up in the gutter . \u2014 Pat Myers, Washington Post , 12 May 2022", "However, with Shopify\u2019s stock in the gutter , is now a good time to buy the company", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "Crews will be setting catch basins to grade, forming up curb and gutter cutout areas, and beginning to form up driveway aprons. \u2014 Linda Gandee, cleveland , 15 June 2020", "Never mind the explicitness of that time\u2019s memento mori, all the skulls and guttering candles. \u2014 Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker , 6 Apr. 2020", "That might be a backhanded way of saying the Portofino is still wonderful\u2014a four-wheeled panther, purring, prowling and guttering in the streets. \u2014 Dan Neil, WSJ , 23 Jan. 2020", "The four of them are watching me, their faces, lit by the moon and the guttering candles on the table, concerned. \u2014 Longreads , 2 Jan. 2020", "The cities can dictate whether or not it's curbed and guttered , concrete, setback limitations, the house size, the lot size and a number of other restrictions. \u2014 David Taylor, Houston Chronicle , 29 Mar. 2018", "The flame of Indian paleontology may be guttering , but a few recent developments have buoyed spirits. \u2014 Sanjay Kumar, Science | AAAS , 4 Apr. 2018", "Is the spirit of man extinguished at death like a candle guttered by a passing wind", "That sum would pay partially for street repaving, major bridge rehabilitation, and curb and gutter rehabilitation \u2014 all part of the Department of Public Works\u2019 nearly $227 million bond request for deferred maintenance. \u2014 Jon Murray, The Denver Post , 15 May 2017" ], "first_known_use":{ "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun", "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb", "15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English goter , from Anglo-French gutere, goter , from gute drop, from Latin gutta":"Noun" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8g\u0259-t\u0259r", "\u02c8g\u0259t-\u0259r" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "drainpipe", "eaves trough", "rainspout", "spout", "trough", "waterspout" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-020813", "type":[ "adjective", "noun", "verb" ] }, "gutty":{ "antonyms":[ "chicken", "chickenhearted", "chicken-livered", "coward", "cowardly", "craven", "dastardly", "fainthearted", "fearful", "gutless", "lily-livered", "milk-livered", "nerveless", "poltroon", "poor-spirited", "pusillanimous", "spineless", "spiritless", "timorous", "uncourageous", "ungallant", "unheroic", "weakhearted", "yellow" ], "definitions":{ ": gutsy sense 1":[ "a gutty quarterback" ], ": having a vigorous challenging quality":[ "gutty realism" ] }, "examples":[ "standing up for what is right, especially if it's unpopular, is about the guttiest thing a person can do", "Recent Examples on the Web", "The gutty little Bruins work their backsides off daily in an effort to earn more Ws, but the fact is that Nick Saban would struggle to be bowl eligible with the UCLA rosters of the last five years. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 Nov. 2021", "The gutty win moves Cleveland back to .500 on the season at 4-4. \u2014 Chris Fedor, cleveland , 1 Nov. 2021", "Despite a gutty second-half rally, the Cavs lost the season opener to the Memphis Grizzlies, 132-121. \u2014 Chris Fedor, cleveland , 20 Oct. 2021", "With one gutty 13-inning performance, one unstoppable run by its most indispensable player and a fortuitous bounce only ancient Fenway Park could provide, the Boston Red Sox are on the verge of doing what looked impossible just three days ago. \u2014 Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY , 11 Oct. 2021", "But Donahue would gain more than respect over his final two seasons as one of Prothro\u2019s gutty little Bruins. \u2014 Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times , 4 July 2021", "But that was only because Williams exploded for his 71-yard score breaking free on a gutty fourth-and-1 on their own 29. \u2014 Kevin J. Farmer, San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 Sep. 2021", "But Allen, leading 35-20 at halftime, broke it open early in the third quarter off a big turnover and a gutty goal-line stand. \u2014 Dallas News , 28 Aug. 2021", "That stuck, even when most of the teams of Gutty Little Bruins that Donahue put on the field were neither little, nor needing to be particularly gutty . \u2014 Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times , 9 July 2021" ], "first_known_use":{ "1942, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8g\u0259-t\u0113" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "bold", "brave", "courageous", "dauntless", "doughty", "fearless", "gallant", "greathearted", "gutsy", "heroic", "heroical", "intrepid", "lionhearted", "manful", "stalwart", "stout", "stouthearted", "undauntable", "undaunted", "valiant", "valorous" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-043625", "type":[ "adjective" ] }, "gut check":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a test or assessment of courage, character, or determination":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "Billerica received a gut check early in Friday\u2019s Division 2 boys\u2019 lacrosse second-round matchup against visiting Nauset. \u2014 Nate Weitzer, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022", "By the time Putin invaded Ukraine, reporters and editors at Novaya Gazeta had already held a serious talk about how the paper would act if a war broke out and the difficulties of wartime conditions \u2014 a gut check on who was ready and who wasn\u2019t. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Mar. 2022", "But Andrew Bailey, his counterpart at the Bank of England, gave investors a gut check on Thursday. \u2014 Julia Horowitz, CNN , 6 May 2022", "If the response still doesn\u2019t sound right, get in touch with a wildlife-conservation organization for a gut check . \u2014 Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online , 3 May 2022", "Cook\u2019s half-court heave at the buzzer sailed high off the backboard, and Auburn survived another gut check on the road. \u2014 Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al , 5 Feb. 2022", "This is a gut check spot, and the Chiefs are the AFC's best for a reason. \u2014 Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic , 25 Oct. 2021", "Although the Bulls managed a comfortable win with their big fourth quarter, Donovan said the game offered a gut check in his team\u2019s physicality defending at the rim. \u2014 Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com , 12 Feb. 2022", "So, for a team that has their eyes on the top of the conference, that has 11 19- and 20-year-olds, this game represents a pretty significant gut check . \u2014 Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive , 24 Nov. 2021" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1963, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-052652" }, "gut course":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a course (as in college) that is easily passed":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1948, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-054150" }, "Gutenberg":{ "type":[ "biographical name" ], "definitions":{ "Johannes circa 1390\u20131468 German inventor of printing from movable type":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8g\u00fc-t\u1d4an-\u02ccb\u0259rg" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-173502" }, "gutbucket":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": barrelhouse sense 2":[], ": a homemade bass fiddle consisting of a stick attached to an inverted washtub and having a single string":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8g\u0259t-\u02ccb\u0259-k\u0259t" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "Back for the third time, five-man rock and blues band the California Honeydrops has roots in the Sunny State and perform on stringed instruments, gutbucket bass, jug and washboard. \u2014 Author: Lauren Ellenbecker, Anchorage Daily News , 1 Aug. 2019", "This gutbucket music brings out joy, which is something sorely lacking in our world. \u2014 Joe Klopus, kansascity , 4 Mar. 2018", "Richie convinces Elvis to join him in pursuit of real rock \u2019n\u2019 roll, opening up a tantalizing vision of an alternate reality where the later Elvis catalog was full of gutbucket rock \u2019n\u2019 roll. \u2014 Gavin Edwards, New York Times , 27 Mar. 2016" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1929, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-190915" }, "GUT":{ "type":[ "abbreviation", "adjective", "noun", "transitive verb", "verb" ], "definitions":{ ": bowels , entrails":[ "\u2014 usually used in plural fish guts" ], ": belly , abdomen":[], ": catgut":[], ": the inner essential parts":[ "the guts of a car" ], ": fortitude and stamina in coping with what alarms, repels, or discourages : courage , pluck":[ "had the guts to run for public office" ], ": the basic visceral, emotional, or instinctual part of a person":[ "She knew in her gut that he was lying.", "Consult more than one financial adviser before making a final choice, and trust your gut .", "\u2014 Quentin Fottrell", "My gut says this is, overall, a terrible idea.", "\u2014 Erica Buist", "\u2014 often used before another noun making a gut decision a gut feeling \"Tony's a very driven guy, and he makes a lot of decisions based on gut instinct,\" \u2026 \u2014 Tom Nides" ], ": the sac of silk taken from a silkworm ready to spin its cocoon and drawn out into a thread for use as a snell":[], ": gut course":[], ": arising from one's inmost self : visceral":[ "a gut reaction" ], ": having strong impact or immediate relevance":[ "gut issues" ], ": eviscerate":[], ": to extract all the essential passages or portions from":[], ": to destroy the inside of":[ "fire gutted the building" ], ": to destroy the essential power or effectiveness of":[ "inflation gutting the economy" ], ": persevere":[], "grand unified theory; grand unification theory":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8g\u0259t" ], "synonyms":[ "entrails", "innards", "inside(s)", "inwards", "viscera", "vitals" ], "antonyms":[ "clean", "disembowel", "draw", "eviscerate" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Noun", "the guts of the fish", "the guts of a machine", "the guts of a business deal", "That decision took a lot of guts .", "I didn't have the guts to do it.", "Verb", "The salmon is already gutted and filleted.", "Critics claim that these reforms will gut the law.", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "The team found that the carbon monoxide could alleviate gut damage and colon inflammation. \u2014 Akila Muthukumar, STAT , 3 July 2022", "That\u2019s because lager beer appears to increase the diversity of your gut bacteria. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 26 June 2022", "Feeling truly convicted about a direction requires head, heart and gut alignment. \u2014 Misty Dykema, Forbes , 24 June 2022", "Ambrose sees this as further proof that his gut instincts were correct. \u2014 Joe Leydon, Variety , 22 June 2022", "And research has found that sarecycline doesn\u2019t affect gut bacteria the same way that doxycycline or minocycline do. \u2014 Stacey Colino, Washington Post , 21 June 2022", "All these things are worked out for some tissues, like the gut , but not in the respiratory tract. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 21 June 2022", "While chia seeds are indeed beneficial in a balanced diet, their role in improving your body's gut and digestive health may be misinterpreted by TikTok users who come across the #InternalShower recipe. \u2014 Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping , 21 June 2022", "Instead, members of Chineke! outfitted their usual modern instruments with gut strings and swapped their bows for lighter-weight Baroque equivalents. \u2014 Barbara Jepson, WSJ , 21 June 2022", "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective", "After the larvae fed on the bait, the essential oils inside caused neurotoxicity and mid- gut and tracheal damage, among other morphological changes not yet recorded in literature in larvae belonging to the Aedes mosquitospecies. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 5 May 2022", "In one of the studies, Nagler and coworkers collected gut bacteria from the feces of healthy and milk-allergic babies and put those collections of microbes into the digestive tracts of germ-free mice. \u2014 Esther Landhuis, Scientific American , 23 May 2020", "Some of this was simply a gut public-health reaction to the sudden spread of the virus. \u2014 Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor , 15 Apr. 2020", "But as their descriptions continue into more specific and graphic territory, that veneer quickly dissolves into unmistakable, gut -wrenching exploitation. \u2014 Andrew Unterberger, Billboard , 4 Mar. 2019", "The researchers hope to better understand how gut bacteria protect their insect hosts. \u2014 Popular Science , 5 Feb. 2020", "Still, Hollywood fancies itself as a town that operates on gut instinct rather than algorithms, for better or for worse. \u2014 Tatiana Siegel, The Hollywood Reporter , 8 Jan. 2020", "Priorities can then be set on a sounder basis than gut instinct, sentimental appeal or the political clout of the people hurt or helped. \u2014 The Economist , 16 Nov. 2019", "That Hood was the latest Moda Center target, however, was especially gut -wrenching. \u2014 oregonlive , 7 Dec. 2019", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "In the coming days, the Supreme Court will rule on a landmark case that could gut the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s ability to regulate greenhouse-gas pollution under the Clean Air Act. \u2014 Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic , 15 June 2022", "Following their successful effort to gull California voters into endorsing their method of exploiting their drivers and field workers, Uber, Lyft and other gig companies expanded their campaign to gut labor protections into other states. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 15 June 2022", "The buyers want location, and have plans to gut the house. \u2014 Longreads , 20 Apr. 2022", "To investigate how superworms\u2019 gut microbiome reacts to a purely plastic diet, the researchers split 135 of the creatures into three groups: one was fed only wheat bran, another was fed only soft polystyrene, and the third was given nothing. \u2014 Fionna Samuels, Scientific American , 9 June 2022", "The method combines host DNA and gut microbiome analysis with open source machine-learning software. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 5 Feb. 2022", "Rhodes went on to gut out a valiant performance in an excellent match, where fans fervently rallied behind the top star with Rollins dominating Rhodes (and his pec). \u2014 Alfred Konuwa, Forbes , 6 June 2022", "Some want to gut the council, which was designed to be check on the power of the county executive but has proven to be full of toadies who rubber stamp the executive\u2019s ideas. \u2014 cleveland , 4 June 2022", "Probiotics are live bacteria that are beneficial to gut health, and coffee is a rich source of antioxidants. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 31 May 2022" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English, from Old English guttas , plural; probably akin to Old English g\u0113otan to pour":"Noun, Adjective, and Verb" }, "first_known_use":{ "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":"Noun", "1964, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective", "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Verb" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-211114" }, "guten Tag":{ "type":[ "German interjection" ], "definitions":{ ": good day : good afternoon : hello":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02ccg\u00fc-t\u0259n-\u02c8t\u00e4k" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-013114" }, "gut-wrenching":{ "type":[ "adjective" ], "definitions":{ ": causing mental or emotional anguish":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8g\u0259t-\u02ccren-chi\u014b" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1972, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-045857" } }