Gutty
adj, noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 One who works in a slaughterhouse cutting out the internal organs.
"Mr Donaldson continued to work during the season as a gutty in the beefhouse at the Lorneville plant, notwithstanding a high level of pain and/or discomfort which he persistently experienced from his elbow disorder."
- 2 An urchin or delinquent. Ireland, dialectal
- 3 Low-class person. Ireland, dialectal
- 4 An unpleasant person. Ireland, dialectal
- 1 Charged or sprinkled with drops. not-comparable
- 2 Gutsy; brave.
- 3 Made of gutta-percha. not-comparable, slang
"I still had in my possession thirteen sets of hickories and a good stock of gutty golf balls, […]"
- 4 Having a prominent gut.
"A trim-middled hog will have a higher dressing percentage than a wasty, gutty, paunchy, heavy-middled hog."
Example
More examples"A trim-middled hog will have a higher dressing percentage than a wasty, gutty, paunchy, heavy-middled hog."
Etymology
From goutte + -y, or anglicization of (Old or Middle French) goutté, ultimately from Latin gutta (“drop (of a liquid)”) (also the ultimate source of English goutte and French goutte). Compare guttated.
From gut + -y.
Perhaps from gutter, or guttersnipe. Or possibly from Irish gaotaire (“a windbag, someone who talks too much”).
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