1819. Moore, Tom Crib, p. 1. Whether diddling your subjects or gutting their jobs. 1849–61. Macaulay, Hist. of England. The king’s printing-house ... was, to use a coarse metaphor, which then for the first time came into fashion, completely gutted. 1892. R. L. Stevenson and L. Osbourne, The Wrecker, p. 373. Well, we’ve got the guts out of you! 2. (schools’).—To eat hard, fast, and badly. For synonyms, see Wolf. To fret one’s guts, verb. phr. (common).—To worry. To have plenty of guts but no bowels, verb. phr. (common).—To be unfeeling, hard, merciless. My great guts are ready to eat my little ones, phr. (old).—‘I am very hungry.’ Also, my guts begin to think my throat’s cut; my guts curse my teeth; and my guts chime twelve.—Grose. Not fit to carry guts to a bear, phr. (common).—To be worthless; absolutely unmannerly; unfit for human food (q.v.). Gut-entrance, subs. (venery).—The female pudendum. Also front-gut. For synonyms, see Monosyllable. Gut-foundered, adj. (old).—Exceedingly hungry. 1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. 1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Gut-pudding, subs. (old).—A sausage.—Nomenclator (1696). For synonyms, see Mysteries. Gut-puller, subs. (common).—A poulterer; a chicken-butcher (q.v.). Gut-scraper, subs. (common).—A fiddler. Also catgut scraper, and tormentor of catgut. For synonyms, see Rosin-the-bow. 1719. Durfey, Pills, ii., 218. ‘A Song’ etc. Strike up, drowsie gut-scrapers. 1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. 1785. Burns, Jolly Beggars. Her charms had struck a sturdy Caird, As weel’s a poor gut-scraper. 1834. W. H. Ainsworth, Rookwood, p. 192 (ed. 1864). Make ready there, you gut-scrapers, you shawm-shavers; I’ll put your lungs in play for you presently. In the mean time—charge, pals, charge—a toast, a toast! 1834. Marryat, Peter Simple, ch. xxxi. ‘You may save yourself the trouble, you dingy gut-scraper,’ replied O’Brien [addressing a fiddler]. Gut-stick, subs. (venery).—The penis. For synonyms, see Creamstick and Prick. To have a bit (or a taste) of the gut-stick = to copulate (of women only). Gut-sticker, subs. phr. (venery).—A sodomite. Also gut-fucker and gut-monger. For synonyms, see Usher. Gutter, subs. (American thieves’).—1. Porter.—Matsell. [Probably a corruption of gatter (q.v.).] 2. (venery).—The female pudendum. For synonyms, see Monosyllable. Verb (Winchester College).—To fall in the water flat on the stomach. Fr., piquer un plat-ventre. To lap the gutter, verb. phr. (common).—To be in the last stage of intoxication. For synonyms, see Drinks and Screwed. Carry me out and leave me in the gutter, phr. (American).—See Carry me out. Gutter-alley (or Lane), subs. (common).—The throat. All goes down Gutter-lane = ‘He spends all on his stomach.’