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- noun informal As much as a
gut (abdomen) will hold. - noun Australia, New Zealand, slang As much as one is willing to hear or experience; too much.
Etymologies
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Examples
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'' People have had a gutful, that is the bottom line.
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Bart Cummings's Melbourne stable foreman, Reg, Fleming, has had a "gutful" of the rumours that So You Think will be pulled out of the Melbourne Cup.
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Now retired, with Radio 4 on most of the time I often hear a police story or, like today, a crime stats story fill the news programmes and after a gutful of politicians, criminologists, ACPO talking heads and other ‘experts’, I will pop along here to get the truth.
Two Million Visits To Police Inspector Blog « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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We are not in the most particularly gutful publishing situation in this industry at this time.
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On a recent RN show on the History of China a big brain opined: In the relativy recent past the civillian population of China has had a gutful of anarchy and civil disorder, thus the population see niceties like freedom of speech/ association / faith as luxuries way way way down the priority scale compared to a more or less functioning society.
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Bob saw his daughter in the car, in the dark, some big punk fool in a pickup with a brainful of crystal meth and a gutful of Budweiser slamming her, laughing hard, deciding it was fun, and slamming her again and again.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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"Why don't you attack from above. get a B-52 to drop a gutful of bombs?"
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The Finns translate sisu as "the Finnish spirit," but it is a much more gutful word than that.
The Inner Teeny-Tiny Ski Patrol Fresca 2009
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Bob saw his daughter in the car, in the dark, some big punk fool in a pickup with a brainful of crystal meth and a gutful of Budweiser slamming her, laughing hard, deciding it was fun, and slamming her again and again.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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Bob saw his daughter in the car, in the dark, some big punk fool in a pickup with a brainful of crystal meth and a gutful of Budweiser slamming her, laughing hard, deciding it was fun, and slamming her again and again.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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