A harsh American dialect insult, primarily from Southern or rural speech, targeting someone perceived as obese or excessively corpulent. The term is deliberately unpleasant in its imagery, combining bodily disgust with a physical description. It belongs to the tradition of vivid, cruel American vernacular insults and would today be considered body-shaming. Rarely used in polite modern conversation but documented in regional dialect records.
The old ranch hand dismissed the city official as a pus-gutted bureaucrat who'd never done a day's hard work.
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(US, dialect, pejorative) corpulent; obese.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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