guts·y [guht-see] Pronunciation Key
–adjective, guts·i·er, guts·i·est. Informal.
1. | having a great deal of courage or nerve: a gutsy lampooner of the administration. |
2. | robust, vigorous, or earthy; lusty: gutsy writing; a gutsy red wine. |
[Origin: 1890–95; guts + -y1; cf. -sy]
—Related forms
guts·i·ness, noun
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gib·bon [gib–uhn] Pronunciation Key – Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
any small, slender, long-armed arboreal anthropoid ape of the genus Hylobates, of the East Indies and southern Asia: all gibbon species are reduced in number and some are very rare. |
[Origin: 1760–70; < F, name of uncert. orig. used by Buffon]
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