gutty

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English

Pronunciation

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.

Azure, gutty d'eau (semé of gouttes argent), borne by Thomas Winterbottom, and by Sumiainen, Finland.

Alternative forms

Adjective

gutty (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry) Charged or sprinkled with drops.

Etymology 2

gut +‎ -y

Adjective

gutty (comparative guttier, superlative guttiest)

  1. Gutsy; brave.
  2. Having a prominent gut.
    • 1958, John M. Kays, Basic animal husbandry, page 269:
      A trim-middled hog will have a higher dressing percentage than a wasty, gutty, paunchy, heavy-middled hog.

Noun

gutty (plural gutties)

  1. One who works in a slaughterhouse cutting out the internal organs.
    • 1990, New Zealand Industrial Law Reports:
      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.

Etymology 3

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

Noun

gutty (plural gutties)

  1. (dialect, Ireland) An urchin or delinquent.
  2. (dialect, Ireland) Low-class person.
  3. (dialect, Ireland) An unpleasant person.

Etymology 4

Adjective

gutty (not comparable)

  1. (slang) Made of gutta-percha.
    • 2013, Alfie Ward, Fairways! What Fairways?, page 182:
      I still had in my possession thirteen sets of hickories and a good stock of gutty golf balls, […]
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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “gutty”, in Collins English Dictionary, HarperCollins Publishers, 2019 January 29 (last accessed)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Terence Patrick Dolan (1998) A Dictionary of Hiberno-English, Gill & Macmillan, →ISBN, page 135
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