Other forms: guts
The gut is the bowels, or an instinctive feeling. A gut feeling, trust your gut, gut bacteria.
The bacteria in it outnumber your own cells and affect digestion, immunity and possibly mood, which is why the gut is sometimes called a second brain. A gut feeling is a judgement you cannot explain, and it is right about as often as the situation is familiar.
1nounbowelsThe bowels and digestive tract.
“The doctor said the pain was caused by an infection in his gut.”
2noungutAn instinctive feeling.
“My gut told me not to trust him, and I was right.”
gut is an organ, or an instinct.
Old English gutt, from a Germanic root meaning to pour, related to the word for a channel.
Proto-Indo-European
*ǵʰewd- — to pour
Proto-Germanic
*gut-
Old English
gutt
Middle English
gut
English, today
gut
Built from
From Middle English gut, gutte, gotte, from Old English gutt (usually in plural guttas (“guts, entrails”)), from Proto-Germanic gut-, from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰewd- (“to pour”). Related to English gote (“drain”), Old English ġēotan (“to pour”). More at gote, yote. The verb is from Middle English gutten, gotten (“to gut”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA