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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gutsy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Going to a start-up company was a gutsy career move.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A gutsy and popular player, Howe ignored medical warnings despite previous heart tremors.
▪ August Wilson's gutsy play on exploitation and oppression.
▪ Big Willie was the toughest dude on the block, a bad combination of vicious clothes-taking bully and mean, gutsy fighter.
▪ Gambill didn't fold, however, playing a gutsy third set.
▪ It's got that gutsy Ampeg overdrive, along with some serious floor-rumbling action.
▪ It is gutsy stuff, Headline is selling it hard and it is well worth supporting.
▪ The music is just not as gutsy or spirited or tuned into the needs of its core audience as it once was.
▪ The result is a gutsy sandwich that would go better with a bottle of beer than a glass of chocolate milk.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
gutsy

gutsy \gutsy\ adj.

  1. marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger.

    Syn: courageous, plucky.

  2. rough or plain; not sophisticated or refined; earthy. Opposite of sophisticated, or refined.

    Syn: earthy, lusty, robust.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gutsy

"tough, plucky," 1936, from guts + -y (2). Earlier it meant "greedy" (1803).

Wiktionary
gutsy

a. 1 marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulty or danger; having guts 2 not showing due respect

WordNet
gutsy

  1. adj. marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; robust and uninhibited; "you have to admire her; it was a gutsy thing to do"; "the gutsy...intensity of her musical involvement"-Judith Crist; "a gutsy red wine" [ant: gutless]

  2. [also: gutsiest, gutsier]

Usage examples of "gutsy".

I had enough bread for months of joyful leisure, for cruising, beachcombing, getting- happily plotzed with good friends, disporting with the trim little jolly sandy-rumped beach kittens, slaying gutsy denizens of the deep blue, and slipping the needle into every phony who happened into my path.

Ritzy, jazzy, noisy, dirty, uninhibited old London, greedy and gutsy and grabbing at life.

I, Pawl Raikuh, will be both pleased and honored to be able to number a fine, gutsy man such as you amongst my officers, Geros.

She wiped away her last tears of self-pity and flashed Fergus her gutsiest grin.

Sando flashed his gutsiest smile, pushed his glasses higher and began to read.

Besides, I had enough bread for months of joyful leisure, for cruising, beachcombing, getting happily plotzed with good friends, disporting with the trim little jolly sandy-rumped beach kittens, slaying gutsy denizens of the deep blue, and slipping the needle into every phony who happened into my path.

The rancher outfit looked great on the gutsy, broad Gilda, but Hannah, thin down to the hips and dark-haired and looking brittle, reminded me of a city girl having her picture taken on a pony on a day trip to the Catskill Game Farm.

I was feeling gutsier than usual, so I asked, "What about Paul Parlipiano?

God, he's even gutsier than he is pretty, Channa thought They'd volunteered for this.

That was as gutsy and insane a maneuver as he'd ever seen, Piggy deliberately exposing himself to fire to account for what they needed Iron Fists sensor crew to conclude.

That was as gutsy and insane a maneuver as he'd ever seen, Piggy delib-erately exposing himself to fire to account for what they needed Iron Fists sensor crew to conclude.