guttery

comparative more guttery · superlative most guttery

1. Having a guttering flame; flickering and weak.

   I am on picket, and writing in the guard-tent by a guttery lantern.

   1900, Erskine Childers, In the Ranks of the C.I.V.

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   Its guttery flare exposed a bed, with a thin mattress and a skimpy cover, shoved close up under the sloping wall; a sprained chair on its last legs; an old horsehide trunk; a shaky washstand of cheap yellow pine, garnished forth with an ewer and a basin; a limp, frayed towel; and a minute segment of pale pink soap.

   1913, Irvin S. Cobb, The Escape of Mr. Trimm

2. broadlyDark and brooding.

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   On the Warlocks' early records, for all that the music was grim and dark and guttery, there was a lightness and a sense of fun in the totally over-the-top playing, each repetitive, maddening, Chinese-water-torture ching-ching-ching drawn out so far past the point of absurdity you could imagine strobe lights flashing off the band's shit-eating grins.

   2005 October 21, Monica Kendrick, “Wait for It”, in Chicago Reader

3. Vulgar; salacious or crude.

   DB okay for one time laughs. at the crass, guttery humour.

   2011 July 1, “Bbuddah Hoga Tera Baap Movie Review”, in Times of India

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   The more guttery bit of our mind wants to break into a disco remix of 'Ranbir and Priyanka sitting in a tree…'

   2011 January 26, Hafsah Sarfraz, “Banned: Slackistan to address red flags before allowed screening”, in The News International

plural gutteries

1. The part of an abattoir used for emptying the gut of its contents; tripery.

   In large abattoirs, the triperies and gutteries should preferably be situated under the slaughtering halls and in direct contact with them, by means of a system of chutes.

   1957, Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Meat Hygiene, Meat hygiene, page 168