Meaning

(informal) As much as a gut (abdomen) will hold..

Definitions by Sense

1. (informal) As much as a gut (abdomen) will hold.
2. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) As much as one is willing to hear or experience; as much as or more than one can bear; too much; a surfeit.

Example Sentences

He drank a gutful of beer.

In every dark corner, fat black bin bags were bent double, throwing up gutfuls of old clothes.

Several gutfuls of alcoholic laughter-breath rolled around the room.

Stratonike laughed, great gutfuls of loud raucous laughter that carried across the crowd.

I've had a gutful of politics lately.

By Monday afternoon we were finished - loadwise, physically, mentally, you name it, we'd had a gutful of it.

He starts mouthing off a bit, then Priz says, “Pipe down while we′re trying to eat,” and then Dogga looks up and puts in, “I′ve had a gutful of ye.” ‘So then Barrowclough, the uraguhne, says, “Well, I′ve had a gutful of ye,” and adds, “I′ll break yer bleedin′ kneck.”

I told the captain what had happened and that the only reason the second rower hadn′t been sent off was because he missed. Then I added that I′d had a gutful and I′d start getting rid of blokes if it kept up. The captain said, ‘You′ve had a gutful! Well, we′ve had a gutful of you.’

Word Forms

• gutfuls
• gutsful

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