gutty

• Rhymes: -ʌti

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.

• goutty, goutté, gouté, gutté, guttée

gutty (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Charged or sprinkled with drops.

gut +‎ -y

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.

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.

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

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]

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, […]

• guttie