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gutty¹

Rhymes with -ʌti

Where it comes from

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.

adjective goutty · goutté · gouté · gutté · guttée

  1. not comparable Charged or sprinkled with drops.

gutty²

Rhymes with -ʌti

Where it comes from

From gut + -y.

adjective guttier · guttiest

  1. slang Gutsy; brave.
  2. Having a prominent gut. A trim-middled hog will have a higher dressing percentage than a wasty, gutty, paunchy, heavy-middled hog.

noun gutties

  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.

gutty³

Rhymes with -ʌti

Where it comes from

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

noun gutties

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

gutty⁴

Rhymes with -ʌti

adjective

  1. not comparable, slang Made of gutta-percha. I still had in my possession thirteen sets of hickories and a good stock of gutty golf balls, […]

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@misc{gutty_2026,
  title = {gutty},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gutty},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}