gut
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.
- 2.
(countable, informal, uncountable)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.
(countable, uncountable)A person's emotional, visceral self.
I have a funny feeling in my gut.
- 5.
(countable, informal, uncountable)A class that is not demanding or challenging.
You should take Intro Astronomy: it's a gut.
- 6.
(countable, uncountable)A narrow passage of water.
the Gut of Canso
- 7.
(countable, uncountable)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.
Động từ
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.
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Made of gut.
a violin with gut strings
- 2.
Instinctive.
gut reaction
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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 gote drain, ġēotan to pour. More at gote, yote.