Now Obs. or vulgar. [f. THIN a. + GUT sb.] One who has a thin body; a lean starved-looking person; a starveling.
1602. Middleton, Blurt, Master Constable, I. ii. Sirrah thin-gut, what’s thy name?
1607. Rowlands, Diog. Lanth., 6. ’Tis Mounsieur Vsury, what a leane lanke thin-gut it is.
1631. Massinger, Believe as You List, III. ii. Does it soe, you thinnegut? Thou thinge without moysture.
So † Thin-gutted a., thin-bodied, lank, lean.
1625. Massinger, New Way, I. ii. I am out of charity With none so much as the thin-gutted squire.
1735. R. Gale, in Mem. W. Stukeley (Surtees), III. 111. A thin-gutted dog, like a grey-hound.
1746. Francis, trans. Hor., Sat., I. v. 93. Methinks, a single Pound of Bread a day Might such a sleek thin-gutted Rogue content.
