Definitions

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  • noun informal As much as a gut (abdomen) will hold.
  • noun Australia, New Zealand, slang As much as one is willing to hear or experience; too much.

Etymologies

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gut +‎ -ful

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Examples

  • '' People have had a gutful, that is the bottom line.

    Townsville Bulletin Latest News 2010

  • Bart Cummings's Melbourne stable foreman, Reg, Fleming, has had a "gutful" of the rumours that So You Think will be pulled out of the Melbourne Cup.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • Now retired, with Radio 4 on most of the time I often hear a police story or, like today, a crime stats story fill the news programmes and after a gutful of politicians, criminologists, ACPO talking heads and other ‘experts’, I will pop along here to get the truth.

    Two Million Visits To Police Inspector Blog « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • We are not in the most particularly gutful publishing situation in this industry at this time.

    MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature 2009

  • On a recent RN show on the History of China a big brain opined: In the relativy recent past the civillian population of China has had a gutful of anarchy and civil disorder, thus the population see niceties like freedom of speech/ association / faith as luxuries way way way down the priority scale compared to a more or less functioning society.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Oily spin off topic. 2010

  • Bob saw his daughter in the car, in the dark, some big punk fool in a pickup with a brainful of crystal meth and a gutful of Budweiser slamming her, laughing hard, deciding it was fun, and slamming her again and again.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • "Why don't you attack from above. get a B-52 to drop a gutful of bombs?"

    Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners 2009

  • The Finns translate sisu as "the Finnish spirit," but it is a much more gutful word than that.

    The Inner Teeny-Tiny Ski Patrol Fresca 2009

  • Bob saw his daughter in the car, in the dark, some big punk fool in a pickup with a brainful of crystal meth and a gutful of Budweiser slamming her, laughing hard, deciding it was fun, and slamming her again and again.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • Bob saw his daughter in the car, in the dark, some big punk fool in a pickup with a brainful of crystal meth and a gutful of Budweiser slamming her, laughing hard, deciding it was fun, and slamming her again and again.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

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