gutty

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌti

Etymology 1

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.

Azure, gutty d'eau (semé of gouttes argent), borne by Thomas Winterbottom, and by Sumiainen, Finland.

Alternative forms

• goutty, goutté, gouté, gutté, guttée

Adjective

gutty (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Charged or sprinkled with drops.

Etymology 2

From gut +‎ -y.

Adjective

gutty (comparative guttier, superlative guttiest)

1. Gutsy; brave.
2. Having a prominent gut.
   • 1958, John M. Kays, Basic animal husbandry, page 269:

     A trim-middled hog will have a higher dressing percentage than a wasty, gutty, paunchy, heavy-middled hog.

Noun

gutty (plural gutties)

1. One who works in a slaughterhouse cutting out the internal organs.
   • 1990, New Zealand Industrial Law Reports:

     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.

Etymology 3

Perhaps from gutter, or guttersnipe.^[1] Or possibly from Irish gaotaire (“a windbag, someone who talks too much”).^[2]

Noun

gutty (plural gutties)

1. (dialect, Ireland) An urchin or delinquent.^[1]
2. (dialect, Ireland) Low-class person.^[1]
3. (dialect, Ireland) An unpleasant person.^[2]

Etymology 4

Adjective

gutty (not comparable)

1. (slang) Made of gutta-percha.
   • 2013, Alfie Ward, Fairways! What Fairways?, page 182:

     I still had in my possession thirteen sets of hickories and a good stock of gutty golf balls, […]

Related terms

• guttie

References

1. “gutty”, in Collins English Dictionary, HarperCollins Publishers, 2019 January 29 (last accessed)
2. Terence Patrick Dolan (1998) A Dictionary of Hiberno-English, Gill & Macmillan, →ISBN, page 135