gutty

Meanings

Adjective

• Charged or sprinkled with drops.
• Gutsy; brave.
• Having a prominent gut.
• Made of gutta-percha.

Noun

• One who works in a slaughterhouse cutting out the internal organs.
• An urchin or delinquent.
• Low-class person.
• An unpleasant person.

Origin

• From Latin gutta ("drop (of a liquid)"). Compare French goutte. Compare guttated.
• gut + -y
• Perhaps from gutter, or guttersnipe. Or possibly from Irish gaotaire ("a windbag, someone who talks too much").