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guts
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ts/
Noun
guts
- plural of gut
Noun
guts pl (plural only)
- The entrails or contents of the abdomen.
- Synonyms: entrails, guttings, innards, insides, viscera
- (by extension, informal) Courage; determination.
- Synonyms: pluck, (vulgar) balls, nerve; see also Thesaurus:courage
- (informal) Content, substance.
- (informal) The essential, core parts.
- (informal) One's innermost feelings.
- (Australia, New Zealand) The ring in the gambling game two-up in which the spinner operates; the centre.
- (Australian rules football, informal) The center of the field.
Translations
Verb
guts
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gut
Verb
guts (third-person singular simple present gutses, present participle gutsing, simple past and past participle gutsed)
- (Australia, informal) To eat greedily.
- (informal) To show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out).
- He gutsed out a 6-1 win.
Anagrams
- Gust, gust, tugs
Danish
Noun
guts c
- indefinite genitive singular of gut
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?ts
Noun
guts f or m (plural gutsen, diminutive gutsje n)
- gouge, a suddenly flowing quantity of fluid
- a chisel type with a hollow beak
Verb
guts
- first-person singular present indicative of gutsen
- imperative of gutsen
References
- M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]
Anagrams
- stug
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backbone
English
Etymology
From Middle English bakbon, bakebon, bac-bon, equivalent to back +? bone. Compare the semantically analogous Old English hry??b?n (“backbone; spine”), West Frisian rêchbonke (“backbone”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?bæk?b??n/
- (US) IPA(key): /?bæk?bo?n/
Noun
backbone (countable and uncountable, plural backbones)
- The series of vertebrae, separated by disks, that encloses and protects the spinal cord, and runs down the middle of the back in vertebrate animals.
- (figuratively) Any fundamental support, structure, or infrastructure.
- (figuratively) Courage, fortitude, or strength.
Synonyms
- spine
- spinal column
- vertebral column
- See also Thesaurus:backbone
Translations
backbone From the web:
- what backbone means
- what backbone protects
- what backbone are made of
- what backbone in networking
- what backbone is called
- what backbone fish have
- what's backbone of society
- what backbone infrastructure
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