Guttery

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Having a guttering flame; flickering and weak..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having a guttering flame; flickering and weak.
2. (by extension) Dark and brooding.
3. Vulgar; salacious or crude.
4. The part of an abattoir used for emptying the gut of its contents; tripery.

Example Sentences

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Synonyms for guttery

Antonyms for guttery

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Word Forms

• more guttery
• most guttery
• gutteries

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