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Gutty

adj, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Charged or sprinkled with drops. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Gutsy; brave.
  3. 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. 4
    Having a prominent gut.

    "A trim-middled hog will have a higher dressing percentage than a wasty, gutty, paunchy, heavy-middled hog."

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    An urchin or delinquent. Ireland, dialectal
  3. 3
    Low-class person. Ireland, dialectal
  4. 4
    An unpleasant person. Ireland, dialectal

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

From gut + -y.

Etymology 3

From gut + -y.

Etymology 4

Perhaps from gutter, or guttersnipe. Or possibly from Irish gaotaire (“a windbag, someone who talks too much”).

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