gutty

Etymology

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.

adj

  1. Charged or sprinkled with drops.
  2. Gutsy; brave.
  3. Having a prominent gut.“A trim-middled hog will have a higher dressing percentage than a wasty, gutty, paunchy, heavy-middled hog.”
  4. Made of gutta-percha.“I still had in my possession thirteen sets of hickories and a good stock of gutty golf balls, […]”

noun

  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.”
  2. An urchin or delinquent.
  3. Low-class person.
  4. An unpleasant person.