Gutful vs Gustful - What's the difference?
gutful | gustful |
(informal) As much as a gut (abdomen) will hold.
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(UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) As much as one is willing to hear or experience; too much.
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gusty
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(obsolete) tasty; good-tasting
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As a noun gutful
is (informal) as much as a gut (abdomen) will hold.As an adjective gustful is
gusty.gutful
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Alternative forms
* gutsful (chiefly New Zealand)Noun
(en-noun)- He drank a gutful of beer.
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- In every dark corner, fat black bin bags were bent double, throwing up gutfuls of old clothes.
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- Several gutfuls of alcoholic laughter-breath rolled around the room.
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- Stratonike laughed, great gutfuls of loud raucous laughter that carried across the crowd.
- I've had a gutful of politics lately.
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- He starts mouthing off a bit, then Priz says, “Pipe down while we?re trying to eat,” and then Dogga looks up and puts in, “I?ve had a gutful of ye.”
- ‘So then Barrowclough, the uraguhne , says, “Well, I?ve had a gutful of ye,” and adds, “I?ll break yer bleedin? kneck.”
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- I told the captain what had happened and that the only reason the second rower hadn?t been sent off was because he missed. Then I added that I?d had a gutful and I?d start getting rid of blokes if it kept up.
- The captain said, ‘You?ve had a gutful'! Well, we?ve had a ' gutful of you.’
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- I looked at him and thought, ‘’
gustful
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Adjective
(en adjective)- A gustful April morn.
- The said season being passed, there is no danger or difficulty to keep it [preserved meat] gustful all the year long.