gut

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The stomach or belly, especially a large one.

   You have developed quite a gut since I last saw you.

2. 2
   noun

   A strong instinctive feeling rather than reasoned thought.

   My gut tells me that something is wrong here.

3. 3
   verb

   To destroy the inside of a building, especially by fire.

   The fire gutted the old factory in a few hours.

4. 4
   verb

   To remove the internal organs of a fish or animal.

   He cleaned and gutted the fish by the river.

From Middle English gut, gutte, gotte, from Old English gutt (usually in plural guttas (“guts, entrails”)), from Proto-Germanic *gut-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”). Related to English gote (“drain”), Old English ġēotan (“to pour”). More at gote, yote. The verb is from Middle English gutten, gotten (“to gut”).

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