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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: fortitude and determination; "he didn't have the guts to try it" [syn: backbone, grit, guts, moxie, sand, gumption]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. pl. Viscera, intestines, entrails, bowels, inwards.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

My great guts are ready to eat my little ones; my guts begin to think my throat's cut; my guts curse my teeth: all expressions signifying the party is extremely hungry.

Moby Thesaurus

abdomen, anus, appendix, backbone, being, bite, bitingness, blind gut, bones, bosom, bottom, bowels, brain, breast, briskness, cecum, census, chutzpah, colon, composition, constituents, content, contents, courage, cuttingness, decisiveness, divisions, drive, duodenum, effectiveness, elements, endocardium, endurance, energy, entrails, esprit, force, forcefulness, foregut, fortitude, gameness, giblets, ginger, gizzard, grit, gutsiness, guttiness, hardiness, heart, heart of hearts, heart of oak, heartiness, heartstrings, hindgut, hotness, impressiveness, incisiveness, index, ingredients, inmost heart, inmost soul, innards, inner mechanism, innermost being, insides, internals, intestinal fortitude, intestine, inventory, inwards, items, jejunum, kick, kidney, kishkes, large intestine, list, liveliness, liver, liver and lights, lung, lustihood, lustiness, mettle, mettlesomeness, midgut, might, mightiness, mordancy, moxie, nerve, nervosity, nervousness, nip, nippiness, obstinacy, part, parts, pepperiness, perineum, pith, pluck, pluckiness, poignancy, potency, power, powerfulness, pump, punch, pylorus, raciness, rectum, relish, robustness, ruggedness, secret places, sinew, sinewiness, small intestine, snap, snappiness, soul, spice, spiciness, spirit, spleen, spunk, spunkiness, stalwartness, stamina, staying power, sticking power, stomach, stout heart, stoutness, strength, strength of will, strong language, sturdiness, tang, tanginess, ticker, toughness, trenchancy, tripes, true grit, vermiform appendix, vigor, vigorousness, viscera, vitality, vitals, whole, works, zest, zestfulness, zip