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gutter

gutter

1 9.9
A small sharp knife used to remove the fish's guts
  • noun
  • /ˈɡʌtər/
  • NSFW
translation icon : destripador
  • The cleaters and gutters, we got a deal on.

Examples

  • That there's the champion hog-gutter of this camp.

  • The term "gutter language" is, for lack of a better word, just vulgar.

    Blog text (4)
  • MAN: Hold on to that gutter!

  • Your gutter language is not acceptable and is way out of bounds.

    Blog text (4)
  • Gutter scoop or garden trowel

    Blog text (19)
  • You can easily hire the gutter punks down in Marseille to steal what needs stealing, but if you want it done right...

  • The candles, squat affairs in ugly cups, gutter down to hot pools and burn out.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • I've seen them shoveling their guts back into their tunics out of the gutter and I'll see you, Murphy.

  • The machine had been washed by small boys from Monterrey to Oaxaca—sometimes with bare hands and gutter water.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • He used the gutter to clean the fish he caught in the lake.

Synonyms

eviscerator
vsgutter
  • NSFW
9.9

A person or machine that removes the internal organs of an animal

is a tool made to remove internal organs specifically from fish

Compounds

gutter press
  • Offensive
1 8.1

Newspapers or magazines that print scandal stories and invade people's privacy to sell more copies

Surface Forms

gutter singular
gutters plural

Morphology

gutter = gut (transparent) = gut + er

This is a standard -er formation from the verb 'gut' meaning something used to gut fish.

Etymology

Gutter here is simply built from gut plus -er, meaning a tool or thing that removes the gut. So a gutter is the knife or tool used for gutting fish.