gutless
adjEtymology From gut + -less.
1
Without a gut.
- This approach was firstly used in a metagenomic context to study the microbial community associated with the gutless worm Olavius algarvensis.2015 November 16, Lanjuan Li, Infectious Microecology: Theory and Applications, Springer, →ISBN, page 213:
2
Informal Cowardly; lacking courage or morals.
- No, you lied to me. You lied to me because you're gutless. You're a gutless drunken loser.1996, Eric Bogosian, SubUrbia (motion picture), spoken by Jeff (Giovanni Ribisi):
- Derived terms
- gutless wonder, gutlessly, gutlessness