ungut
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English
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[edit]Verb
[edit]ungut (third-person singular simple present unguts, present participle ungutting, simple past and past participle ungutted)
- (rare, now nonstandard) To gut, to remove the guts of.
- 1713, Spaccio della Bestia Trionfante, or the Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast (translated from the Iralian of Giordano Bruno into English by WIlliam Morehead) The Third Dialogue, page 261:
- [L]et it be a great Honour for one to be a Butcher, by killing, flaying, ungutting, and quartering a wild Beast.
- 1958, Tri-quarterly, volumes 1-3, page 42:
- We killed two rattlesnakes, ungutted them
And ate them, sliced up, fried like chicken.
- 1713, Spaccio della Bestia Trionfante, or the Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast (translated from the Iralian of Giordano Bruno into English by WIlliam Morehead) The Third Dialogue, page 261:
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German and Old High German unguot. By surface analysis, un- + gut. Compare English ungood, obsolete Dutch ongoed.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]ungut (strong nominative masculine singular unguter, comparative unguter, superlative am ungutesten)
- not good, not quite right, uneasy, unpleasant, bad
- Ich hatte ein ungutes Gefühl bei der ganzen Sache.
- I had a bad feeling about the whole affair.
- Immer wenn sie dabei war, entstand so eine ungute Atmosphäre.
- Whenever she was present, there was this uneasy atmosphere.
- 1910, Karl May, Mein Leben und Streben[1]:
- Meine Mutter war eine Märtyrerin, eine Heilige, immer still, unendlich fleißig, trotz unserer eigenen Armut stets opferbereit für andere, vielleicht noch ärmere Leute. Nie, niemals habe ich ein ungutes Wort aus ihrem Mund gehört.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2022 December 12, Michael Moorstedt, “Foto-App Lensa: Wenn künstliche Intelligenz zu lüstern wird”, in Süddeutsche Zeitung[2]:
- Die KI in der Fotobearbeitungs-App Lensa macht jeden zum sexualisierten Comic-Helden, und die Nutzer lieben es. Warum das ungute Folgen hat.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ungut” in Duden online
- “ungut”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache[3] (in German)
- “ungut” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- J. C. Adelung (1793–1801), “ungut”, in Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der Hochdeutschen Mundart (in German), 2nd edition
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