gut
gut
definition
verb
After getting a few fish each, they swam in the pond before they went back to the beach to clean and gut the fish and prepare them for dinner.
take out the intestines and other internal organs of (a fish or other animal) before cooking it.
it guts me to think about what my mother and brother missed out on
cause (someone) to feel extremely upset or disappointed.
noun
a painful stabbing feeling in his gut
the stomach or belly.
she had both more brains and more guts than her husband
personal courage and determination; toughness of character.
example
I don't know, but my hope and my 'gut' feeling aren't the same.
I didn't even have time to respond, my entire focus was spent on making sure my face didn't look like someone punched me in the 'gut' .
The instrument itself was made of wood, with 'gut' or horsehair strings.
Some of these organisms can damage the cells lining the inner surface of the 'gut' and interfere with the normal processes of the intestines.
I had a 'gut' feeling that something was wrong
The officer's intuitions, 'gut' feelings and sixth sense about a situation are all disallowed.
I do still feel like I've been kicked in the 'gut' , but I've kind of gotten used to that.
the terrible pain in his 'gut'
Business decisions certainly involve mind games, not just 'gut' feelings or pure intuition.
microbes which naturally live in the human 'gut'
Call it 'gut' feeling or intuition, but I really think he's somewhere around there.
The cells in the brain and in the 'gut' have receptors that respond to nicotine.
It will not be a 'gut' reaction, but an informed decision based on the knowledge that what I want and what he wants are very different things.
These are just emotional and 'gut' feelings that come to me off the top of my head.
But you should develop the capacity to reflect on 'gut' feelings rather than acting on them impulsively.
Highly ritualized pictorial constructions, these elegant, stylish surfaces are to 'gut' emotion as a boxing match is to a street fight.
You slice your wrist and it's as good as stabbing yourself in the 'gut' .
The following figures are not from anything I have read but are simply 'gut' feelings.
I don't think that their position, based on their 'gut' reaction, is justifiable.
There's no conductor; she directs them herself… and she's strung her Strad with 'gut' , and plays it with a classical bow.
If they knew it was you who turned them in, they'd 'gut' you like a fish.
However, rather than accept that this totally destroys her argument she instead chooses to ignore it in favour of her 'gut' feelings, and urges us to do likewise.
In some the problem has a behavioural basis, whereas in others there may be subtle neuromuscular abnormalities of the 'gut' .
His voice, deeper and from the 'gut' , returns in this CD to a peaceable realm, to the great meditative music of the Mandingo empire.
A stoma is an artificial opening to or from the intestine (which is also known as the 'gut' or bowel) on the abdominal wall usually created by a surgeon.
a painful stabbing feeling in his 'gut'
'gut' strings
Let the fishmonger scale, clean and 'gut' the fish (I leave the head on).
Patients will almost never knee you in the groin or kick you in the 'gut' .
Most people nowadays do not wring chickens' necks, pluck them, and cook them for dinner, or butcher their own pigs, or 'gut' their own fish.
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