Got vs Gut - What's the difference?
got | gut |
(get)
(British, NZ)
(Southern US, with to) ; have (to).
* 1971 , Carol King and Gerry Goffin, “Smackwater Jack”, Tapestry , Ode Records
(Southern US, UK, slang) have
The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.
(informal) The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged
(uncountable) The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.
A person's emotional, visceral self.
(in the plural) The essential, core parts.
(in the plural) Ability and will to face up to adversity or unpleasantness.
(informal) A gut course
A narrow passage of water.
The sac of silk taken from a silkworm when ready to spin its cocoon, for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. When dry, it is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fishing line.
To eviscerate.
To remove or destroy the most important parts of.
:* fire gutted the building
:* Congress gutted the welfare bill.
Made of gut, e.g., a violin with gut strings
Instinctive, e.g., a gut reaction
As a proper noun got
is god.As an initialism gut is
grand unification theory.got
English
Verb
(head)- We got the last bus home.
- By that time we'd got very cold.
- I've got two children.
- How many children have you got ?
- I can't go out tonight, I've got to study for my exams.
- I got to go study.
- We got to ride to clean up the streets / For our wives and our daughters!
- They got a new car.
- He got a lot of nerve.
Usage notes
* (past participle of get) The second sentence literally means "At some time in the past I got (obtained) two children", but in "have got" constructions like this, where "got" is used in the sense of "obtained", the sense of obtaining is lost, becoming merely one of possessing, and the sentence is in effect just a more colloquial way of saying "I have two children". Similarly, the third sentence is just a more colloquial way of saying "How many children do you have?" * (past participle of get) The American and archaic British usage of the verb conjugates as get-got-gotten or as get-got-got depending on the meaning (see for details), whereas the modern British usage of the verb has mostly lost this distinction and conjugates as get-got-got in most cases. * (expressing obligation) "Got" is a filler word here with no obvious grammatical or semantic function. "I have to study for my exams" has the same meaning. It is often stressed in speech: "You've just got to see this."Synonyms
* gotta (informal )Statistics
*gut
English
Noun
(en noun)- beer gut
- I have a funny feeling in my gut .
- He knew all about the guts of the business, how things actually get done.
- It took a lot of guts to admit to using banned substances on television.
- You should take Intro Astronomy: it's a gut .
- the Gut of Canso