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 synonyms, see Rosin-the-bow.
1719. Durfey, Pills, ii., 218. ‘A Song’ etc. Strike up, drowsie
gut-scrapers.
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 Creamstick 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.).]