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Sat Apr 08, 2006 22:40 pm Meaning of the words gutted and gotted |
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Dear learner, Your question was:
| Quote: | | what is the meaning of the word "gutted"? what are the differences between "gotten"and "gutten"? |
Well, both words have total different meanings. Gotten is past participle of GET
Gutted is past tense of GUT.
Gut is the same as your intestines and stomach, your entrails, viscera. The meaning of "gutted" is actually kind of gross. It pretty much means to remove guts from a being. _________________ Hey, I'm Caroline.
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Sun Apr 09, 2006 0:26 am Gutted |
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Hi,
This word is used as a form of slang meaning hugely disappointed about what has happened to you.
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Tue Aug 28, 2007 11:57 am Meaning of the words gutted and gotted |
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That usage may well be limited to the UK, Alan. 'Gutted' is not used that way at all in the US. . _________________ Amy
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Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:18 pm Meaning of the words gutted and gotted |
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Hi Yankee
What is the usage of "gutted" in the US Yankee?
Is it anything like; "Plane gutted at Japanese airport"?
As in the inside being totally destroyed. This was a recent headline in the Guardian newspaper.
Another example would be,
"We gutted our flat, because we wanted to do a total revamp of our home. It was beginning to fall apart".
Both the above meaning and the one Alan mentions are used in the UK.
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Tue Aug 28, 2007 13:22 pm Meaning of the words gutted and gotted |
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Hi stew.t.
The American Heritage Dictionary (for example) is available online:
gut (verb) 1. To remove the intestines or entrails of; eviscerate. 2. To extract essential or major parts of: gut a manuscript. 3. To destroy the interior of: Fire gutted the house. 4. To reduce or destroy the effectiveness of: A stipulation added at the last minute gutted the ordinance.
All of these meanings for the verb 'to gut' are familiar to me. And 'gutted' is the past tense or past participle (which naturally can also be used as an adjective).
However, I'd never heard the slang usage for 'gutted' that Alan described until I read this thread. As I said, it may well be a usage limited to the UK. _________________ Amy
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Wed Aug 29, 2007 12:58 pm Meaning of the words gutted and gotted |
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Hi Yankee
I am aware of the American Heritage Dictionary being online, thanks for the link though it will be very useful to other forum uses.
But I feel it is better to get a response from the nationality in question, don?t you?
I guess the quite colloquial usage that Alan referred to is pretty limited, even within the UK.
Some of my extended family, who still live in Derbyshire (where I was born), hardly ever use it. Although they do have enough phrases that are particular to that area;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/content/articles/2005/08/19/voices05_derbyshire_dictionary_feature.shtml
I can see how the phrase "gutted" for being disappointed does have some sense, in that your guts (or stomach) is often affected when you have a feeling of being let down. I have been known to use it, however that is more down to the fact I have lived in many places in the UK and have picked up, as well as lost, many phrases.
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Fri Aug 31, 2007 3:05 am Meaning of the words gutted and gotted |
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The use of 'gutted' to convey that sinking feeling in one's stomach when disappointed is widespread now in the UK. It seems to have gone from slang to accepted when the Belfast Telegraph uses it in a headline. The opening sentence also explains the meaning quite well.
'"Irish feeling gutted after Dutch defeat" Wednesday, August 22, 2007 By Graham Hamilton It's not often an Irish team would be disappointed after holding the mighty Dutch to 1-0, ... .' |
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Fri Aug 31, 2007 8:58 am Meaning of the words gutted and gotted |
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. Interesting usage. To this American ear, the word "disappointed" seems far too mild as a possible synonym for something so drastic as "gutted". . _________________ Amy
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