guttery

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Definition of guttery

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Having a guttering flame; flickering and weak.
    “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.”
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adj

  1. Having a guttering flame; flickering and weak.
    “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.”
  2. (broadly)Dark and brooding.
    “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.”
  3. Vulgar; salacious or crude.
    “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…'”

noun

  1. The part of an abattoir used for emptying the gut of its contents; tripery.
    “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.”

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Etymology

From gutter + -y.

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