guts
Insides or bravery
Guts are the intestines and other internal organs of the body, especially the stomach and bowels: I felt it in my guts.
The word extends to the inner workings of anything: the guts of a computer.
Figuratively, guts means courage or determination: It takes guts to stand up to a bully.
To gut something is to remove its insides or strip it bare: gut a fish, fire gutted the building.
To hate someone's guts is to despise them utterly.
Coiled digestive organs
- entrailsInternal digestive organs
- visceraAbdominal organs collectively
- innardsInternal organs collectively
- bowelsLower digestive organs
stomach · abdomen · organs · colon · liver · spleen · kidneys · pancreas
Boldness before danger
- nerveSignal-carrying body fiber
- boldnessFearless readiness to act
- daringAdventurous courage
- fearlessnessComplete lack of dread
audacity · pluck · spunk · mettle · grit · backbone · chutzpah · moxie
Instinctive immediate understanding
- hunchUnproven inner sense
- feelingSensed inner state
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
foreboding · insight · suspicion · inkling · perception · visceral · instinctive · intuitiveness
Central essential portion
- heartCirculatory system's pump
- substancePhysical material with mass
- basicsFoundational knowledge of something
- fundamentalsCore elements of something
essentials · nitty-gritty · meat · crux · nucleus · foundation · inner workings · internals
intestines
Coiled digestive organs
- entrailsInternal digestive organs
- visceraAbdominal organs collectively
- innardsInternal organs collectively
bowels · stomach · abdomen · organs · colon · liver · spleen · kidneys · pancreas · gallbladder
bravery
Boldness before danger
fearlessness · audacity · pluck · spunk · mettle · grit · backbone · chutzpah · moxie · valor
intuition
Instinctive immediate understanding
- hunchUnproven inner sense
- feelingSensed inner state
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
premonition · foreboding · insight · suspicion · inkling · perception · visceral · instinctive · intuitiveness
core
Central essential portion
- heartCirculatory system's pump
- substancePhysical material with mass
- basicsFoundational knowledge of something
fundamentals · essentials · nitty-gritty · meat · crux · nucleus · foundation · inner workings · internals · mechanism
racket
Uproar, scam, or paddle
strings · tension · restring · catgut · synthetic · durability · playability
- gutintestine, small intestine, large intestine, colon, bowel
- heroismbravery, valor, hero, courage, heroism
- backbonevertebrae, vertebra, spinal column, vertebral column, spinal cord
- inner strengthresilience, fortitude, mental toughness, grit, mental fortitude
- inner workingscore, kernel, wiring, circuitry, organs
- pushing boundariesboldness, daring, audacity, pioneer, maverick
gutscowardice
Absence of bravery
spinelessness · gutlessness · timidity · cowardliness · yellow-bellied
- gut feelingInstinctive sense about something
- gut instinctImmediate unreasoned knowing
- gut reactionImmediate unthinking feeling
- gut punchShocking emotional blow
- trust your gutRely on intuition
- gut checkHonest self-examination
gut, gutter, gutsy, gutless, gutting, gutters, gutted, gutlessness, guttered