1892. R. L. Stevenson and L. Osbourne, The Wrecker, p. 373. Well, we've got the guts out of you!
2. (schools').—To eat hard, fast, and badly. For synonyms, see Wolf.
To fret one's guts, verb. phr. (common).—To worry.
To have plenty of guts but no bowels, verb. phr. (common).—To be unfeeling, hard, merciless.
My great guts are ready to eat my little ones, phr. (old).—'I am very hungry.' Also, my guts begin to think my throat's cut; my guts curse my teeth; and my guts chime twelve.—Grose.
Not fit to carry guts to a bear, phr. (common).—To be worthless; absolutely unmannerly; unfit for human food (q.v.).
Gut-entrance, subs. (venery).—The
female pudendum. Also
front-gut. For synonyms, see
Monosyllable.
Gut-foundered, adj. (old).—Exceedingly
hungry.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
Gut-pudding, subs. (old).—A
sausage.—Nomenclator (1696).
For synonyms, see Mysteries.
Gut-puller, subs. (common).—A
poulterer; a chicken-butcher
(q.v.).
Gut-scraper, subs. (common).—A
fiddler. Also catgut scraper,
and tormentor of catgut.
For synonymns, see Rosin-the-bow.
1719. Durfey, Pills, ii., 218. 'A Song' etc. Strike up, drowsie gutscrapers.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1785. Burns, Jolly Beggars. Her charms had struck a sturdy Caird, As weel's a poor gut-scraper.
1834. W. H. Ainsworth, Rookwood, p. 192 (ed. 1864). Make ready there, you gut-scrapers, you shawm-shavers; I'll put your lungs in play for you presently. In the mean time—charge, pals, charge—a toast, a toast!
1834. Marryat, Peter Simple, ch. xxxi. 'You may save yourself the trouble, you dingy gut-scraper,' replied O'Brien [addressing a fiddler].
Gut-stick, subs. (venery).—The
penis. For synonyms, see Cream-*stick
and Prick. To have a
bit (or a taste) of the gut-stick
= to copulate (of women
only).
Gut-sticker, subs. phr. (venery).—A
sodomite. Also gut-fucker
and gut-monger. For
synonyms, see Usher.
Gutter, subs. (American thieves').—1.
Porter.—Matsell. [Probably
a corruption of gatter
(q.v.).]
2. (venery).—The female pudendum. For synonyms, see Monosyllable.
Verb (Winchester College).—To fall in the water flat on the stomach. Fr., piquer un plat-ventre.
To lap the gutter, verb. phr. (common).—To be in the last stage of intoxication. For synonyms, see Drinks and Screwed.
Carry me out and leave me in the gutter, phr. (American).—See Carry me out.
