English

gut-shoot

From gut + shoot.

A compound of gut + shoot

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- ‘to pour’

Proto-Germanic *gut-

Old English gutt ‘gut, entrail’

Middle English gut

English gut

Proto-Germanic *skeutaną ‘to shoot, dash’

Proto-West Germanic *skeutan ‘to shoot’

Old English scēotan ‘to shoot’

Middle English scheten

English shoot

Today it means

verb To shoot in the gut with a firearm.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / gut-shoot