guts vs pluck

guts

noun
  • One's innermost feelings. 

  • The center of the field. 

  • Courage; determination. 

  • Content, substance. 

  • The entrails or contents of the abdomen. 

  • The essential, core parts. 

  • The ring in the gambling game two-up in which the spinner operates; the centre. 

verb
  • To show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out). 

  • To eat greedily. 

pluck

noun
  • Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence. 

  • The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals. 

  • An instance of plucking or pulling sharply. 

  • Cheap wine. 

verb
  • To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation. 

  • To pull something sharply; to pull something out 

  • To pull or twitch sharply. 

  • To remove feathers from a bird. 

  • To play a string instrument pizzicato. 

  • To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc. 

  • Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing. 

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