greedy guts
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8.4
- noun
- Offensive
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tragón
- Don't be a greedy guts; leave some pizza for everyone else!
Examples
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"Greedy guts," Jim said.
Fiction book (2001) -
Greedy guts, the lot of you.
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At the buffet, he was such a greedy guts, piling all the food onto his plate.
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She called her brother a greedy guts when he ate all the cookies without sharing.
Synonyms
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7.0
A person who eats or drinks more than they need
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3.0
A person who eats a lot of food
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3.3
A person who often eats more food than their body needs
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9.9
A person who eats too much food
A person who eats too much in a greedy way
A person who eats quickly and greedily
A person who eats food very quickly and greedily
How Greedy
Surface Forms
Morphology
While 'greedy' clearly signals excessive desire, 'guts' here is a colloquial, nickname-forming element rather than contributing its literal meaning (e.g. 'intestines' or 'courage'), so the person-denoting sense is not fully predictable from the parts. A B1 learner who knows both words could probably infer it means a greedy person from the adjective+noun pattern, but this relies on familiarity with playful idiomatic formations, making it only partially transparent.
Etymology
Greedy guts comes from the image of someone being very greedy and stuffing their guts, or 'belly', with food. So it is used to call someone 'a person who eats or takes more than their fair share'.