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Chris -- 2018-04-11
“Admittedly when I watched Italy beat France in the football world cup in France I was guttered the Italians won.”
http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Kiwidane/page-2.html
”...however I was offered a redundancy, I was guttered, lost all my passion and confidence to look for another job.”
http://www.exceedyourdreamsnow.com/
“I was guttered not to be able to pick up my ipod which I was sure was sitting in the post office right then…”
http://www.mylifeoftravel.com/ViewJourn … c0e179639f
“he turned up in the room i was in said nothing and left i was guttered i thought that’s it am never gonna see him again”
http://forum.sofeminine.co.uk/forum/loi … amour.html
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I’m not so familiar with gutted in the current usage, but there may be some merit to it. I’m more curious about the way this one opens up a whole class of possibilities in which -er is added to some base word. The only other example I can think of right now is the pair bugger off and bug off. There must be other possibilities.
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The despondency expressed by gutted is nicely matched by guttered which seems to suggest being brought to the lowest possible point by the rains of misfortune or circumstance. A fine eggcorn in my book, mycd – and welcome to the forum by the way – though others may have books that disagree.
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Apparently a gutter is also the channel formed on the side of a candle as the hot wax runs down, and a candle is said to be “guttering” when it’s burning low and flickering.
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