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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a thin, lean, or flaccid belly, as a fish.

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Examples

  • That thin-gutted frog-eater has got me feeling hotter than hoss radish!

    Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

  • Think of that, ye thin-gutted weavers of Manchester.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841 Various

  • Candlestick, followed by the puritanical figure we have described, after he had, at the expense of some time and difficulty, and by the assistance of a 'louping-on-stane,' or structure of masonry erected for the traveller's convenience in front of the house, elevated his person to the back of a long-backed, raw-boned, thin-gutted phantom of a broken-down blood-horse, on which Waverley's portmanteau was deposited.

    Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801

  • He mounted Dermid accordingly and sallied forth from the Golden Candlestick, followed by the puritanical figure we have described, after he had, at the expense of some time and difficulty, and by the assistance of a 'louping - on-stane,' or structure of masonry erected for the traveller's convenience in front of the house, elevated his person to the back of a long-backed, raw-boned, thin-gutted phantom of a broken-down blood-horse, on which Waverley's portmanteau was deposited.

    Waverley — Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801

  • He mounted Dermid accordingly and sallied forth from the Golden Candlestick, followed by the puritanical figure we have described, after he had, at the expense of some time and difficulty, and by the assistance of a 'louping - on-stane,' or structure of masonry erected for the traveller's convenience in front of the house, elevated his person to the back of a long-backed, raw-boned, thin-gutted phantom of a broken-down blood-horse, on which Waverley's portmanteau was deposited.

    Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • 'louping-on-stane,' or structure of masonry erected for the traveller's convenience in front of the house, elevated his person to the back of a long-backed, raw-boned, thin-gutted phantom of a broken-down blood-horse, on which Waverley's portmanteau was deposited.

    Waverley Walter Scott 1801

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