2022-08-06
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – G – guts
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Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง “Gut” = ‘guht’
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression
Guts
This is a slang term when used to mean
“courage” “bravery.”
The word is in such widespread use
that it would be absurd to suggest
that you never use it in this sense.
Intestinal fortitude is stuffy and pretentious,
but you might occasionally use
fortitude, resolution, tenacity, mettle, spirit, boldness,
audacity, grit, pluck, backbone, heroism, gallantry, or valor.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Word History
What Does Your 'Gut' Tell You?
Guts! Everyone’s got them,
but how often do we really stop and think about them?
If you’ve eaten something a bit off recently
you may well be thinking of your guts as you read this,
but this is not actually about your digestive tract;
we’re going to look at the word gut.
Gut has been with us for a very long time,
coming into modern English from the Old English guttas
(which is a collective plural, as is our guts).
While it may not be the most dignified word in your lexical
quiver, guts has not always been the uncouth cousin of viscera;
the Oxford English Dictionary defines it as
“formerly, but not now,
in dignified use with reference to humans.”
The earliest sense of guts was “bowels, entrails,”
and while the word has picked up
a number of other meanings over the past thousand or so years,
many of them deal in some way with this area of the body,
either literally or figuratively.
Your guts may be your digestive tract,
your belly, the inner workings of a thing, or
“the basic visceral or emotional part of a person.”
Gut is also a verb, generally with meanings
relating to the removal or destruction of something
(it can mean “to eviscerate”,
“to destroy the inside of,” or
“to extract all the essential passages or portions from”).
And the word also functions as an adjective,
often in the sense of “arising from one's inmost self.”
The figurative gut (“the basic visceral or emotional part of a person”)
and the adjectival gut (“visceral”) are often encountered today,
particularly in idiomatic use.
We hear of people having gut reactions, feelings, or instincts.
All of these are fairly recent, dating from the 20th century,
with gut reaction appearing to be the earliest.
Another common gut
idiom is bust a gut,
which may meaning either
“to work or try extremely hard,” or
“to laugh very hard.”
Both of these senses have been in English use
since the 19th century
Your gut may talk to you,
but that doesn’t mean
“you have to listen to what it has to say.”
