guttery means having a guttering flame; flickering and weak.
Etymology
From gutter + -y.
adj
- Having a guttering flame; flickering and weak.“Its guttery flare exposed a bed, with a thin mattress and a skimpy cover, shoved close up under the sloping wall; a sprained chair on its last legs; an old horsehide trunk; a shaky washstand of cheap yellow pine, garnished forth with an ewer and a basin; a limp, frayed towel; and a minute segment of pale pink soap.”
- Dark and brooding.“On the Warlocks' early records, for all that the music was grim and dark and guttery, there was a lightness and a sense of fun in the totally over-the-top playing, each repetitive, maddening, Chinese-water-torture ching-ching-ching drawn out so far past the point of absurdity you could imagine strobe lights flashing off the band's shit-eating grins.”
- Vulgar; salacious or crude.“DB okay for one time laughs. at the crass, guttery humour.”
noun
- The part of an abattoir used for emptying the gut of its contents; tripery.“In large abattoirs, the triperies and gutteries should preferably be situated under the slaughtering halls and in direct contact with them, by means of a system of chutes.”