gutter

English

curb, gutter, and storm drain

Etymology

Anglo-Norman gotere, from Old French goutiere (French gouttière), ultimately from Latin gutta (“drop”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɡʌt.ə/, (US) IPA: /ˈɡʌt.ɚ/
• Rhymes: -ʌtə(r)

Noun

gutter (plural gutters)

1. A ditch along the side of a road.
2. A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
3. A grooves down the sides of a bowling lane.
4. A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
5. A space between printed columns of text.
6. Something distasteful or morally questionable.
7. (UK) A drainage channel
8. (philately) an unprinted space between rows of stamps.
9. The part of a street meant for vehicles.
   • 1998, Denis Hamill, 3 Quarters, 1999 Pocket Books edition, ISBN 0671002503, page 91 [1]:

     Bobby stood in the middle of the gutter, traffic swerving around him.

   • 2010 August 31, Anne Hart, "Sacramento County Children's Report Card says 34% of teens 13-16 are overweight or obese", Sacramento Nutrition Examiner (blog) [2]:

     If you don't want your kids to play softball in the middle of the gutter full of traffic, you need parks.

Translations

ditch

Chinese: Mandarin: 排水溝 (zh), 排水沟 (zh) (páishuǐgōu) Finnish: katuoja French: caniveau (fr) m. German: Dachrinne (de) f., Rinne (de) f. Hungarian: árok (hu)

Japanese: 溝 (ja) (どぶ, dobu), 排水溝 (ja) (はいすいこう, haisuikō) Latin: canālis (la) m. Macedonian: одводен ров (mk) (ódvoden rov) m. Russian: кювет (ru) (kjuvét) m., канава (ru) (kanáva) f. Turkish: ızgara (tr)

duct or channel beneath the eaves

Bosnian: oluk (bs) m. Catalan: canal (ca) Czech: okap (cs) m. Finnish: sadevesikouru (fi) French: gouttière (fr), caniveau (fr) Hindi: हलक (halak), कंठ (ka.nth) Hungarian: ereszcsatorna (hu) Italian: grondaia (it) Macedonian: олук (mk) (óluk) m. Portuguese: calha (pt), algeroz (pt)

Romanian: jgheab (ro) Russian: жёлоб (ru) (žólob) m. Scots: rone Serbian: Cyrillic: олук m. Roman: oluk m. Spanish: canalón (es) Tagalog: alulod (tl) Turkish: oluk (tr), suyolu (tr)

groove beside a bowling alley

Finnish: kouru (fi)

French: dalot (fr) m.

space between columns in text

Spanish: medianil (es) m.

something distasteful or morally questionable

Finnish: rappio (fi)

See also

• Gutter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• gout

Adjective

gutter (comparative more gutter, superlative most gutter)

1. suitable for the gutter; vulgar, disreputable

Translations

vulgar, disreputable

Finnish: rappiollinen

Verb

gutter (third-person singular simple present gutters, present participle guttering, simple past and past participle guttered)

1. to flow or stream; to form gutters [from late 14th c.]
2. (of a candle) to melt away or fail from becoming channeled on one side [from early 18th c.]
3. (of a small flame) to flicker as if about to be extinguished

Translations

to flow or stream; to form gutters

Finnish: valua (fi), virrata (fi)

to melt away or fail from becoming channeled on one side

to flicker as if about to be extinguished

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Danish

Noun

gutter c.

1. plural indefinite of gut