Guts vs Intestine - What's the difference?
guts | intestine |
The entrails or contents of the abdomen.
(slang) Courage; determination.
:* It must have taken some guts to speak in front that audience.
:* She doesn't take any nonsense from anyone—she's got guts .
(slang) Content, substance.
:* His speech had no guts in it.
(informal) To show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out ).
(anatomy, often pluralized) The alimentary canal of an animal through which food passes after having passed all stomachs.
One of certain subdivisions of this part of the alimentary canal, such as the small or large intestine in human beings.
Domestic; taking place within a given country or region.
* 1615 , Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia , Richmond 1957, p.2:
* 1776 , (Edward Gibbon), The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , ch.1,
(obsolete) Internal.
* , I.41:
* Milton
* Hume
(obsolete, rare) Depending upon the internal constitution of a body or entity; subjective.
* Cudworth
(obsolete, rare) Shut up; enclosed.
Intestine is a synonym of guts.
As nouns the difference between guts and intestine
is that guts is plural of lang=en while intestine is the alimentary canal of an animal through which food passes after having passed all stomachs.As a verb guts
is to show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out).As an adjective intestine is
domestic; taking place within a given country or region.guts
English
(wikipedia guts)Noun
(head)Synonyms
* (entrails) entrails, guttings, innards, insides, viscera * (courage) balls, nerve, pluck, big ballsVerb
(es)- He gutsed out a 6-1 win.
Anagrams
* * ----intestine
English
(wikipedia intestine)Etymology 1
From (etyl) , as Etymology 2, below.Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* bowel * gut * tharmDerived terms
* intestinal * gastrointestinal * large intestine * small intestineSee also
* entrail * innard * colonEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Adjective
(-)- It being true that now after fiue yeeres intestine warre with the reuengefull implacable Indians, a firme peace (not againe easily to be broken) hath bin lately concluded.
- Yet the success of Trajan, however transient, was rapid and specious. The degenerate Parthians, broken by intestine discord, fled before his arms.
- When you have alleaged all the reasons you can, and beleeved all to disavow and reject her, she produceth, contrarie to your discourses, so intestine inclination, that you have small hold against her.
- Hoping here to end / Intestine war in heaven, the arch foe subdued.
- an intestine strugglebetween authority and liberty
- Everything labours under an intestine necessity.
- (Cowper)