EGAVE

gut

About 5.39 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. symbol ISO 639-3 language code for Maléku Jaíka.
  2. noun The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.
  3. noun The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged.
    You've developed quite a beer gut since I last met you.
  4. noun The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.
  5. noun A person's emotional, visceral self.
    I have a funny feeling in my gut.
  6. noun A class that is not demanding or challenging.
    You should take Intro Astronomy: it's a gut.
  7. noun A narrow channel, passage, or stream of water.
    the Gut of Canso
  8. noun 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.

Similar words

bowel intestine catgut intestinal gastrointestinal midgut viscera stomach visceral rectal

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Word family

GUT GUTs gut course guts gutted gutting

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