subs. (vulgar).—The stomach; the GUTS (q.v.). Also INWARDS.

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  1602.  SHAKESPEARE, Othello, ii. 1.

                        The thought whereof
Doth like a poisonous mineral gnaw my INWARDS.

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  1653.  R. BROME, The City Wit, iv., 2, in Five New Playes, 347. Py. Bestow steeping thy skin in perfumes to kill the stink of thy paintings, and rotten INWARDS to catch Cockscombs.

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  1667.  MILTON, Paradise Lost, xi.

                        Then, sacrificing, laid
The INWARDS and their fat, with incense strow’d,
On the cleft wood.

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  1870.  R. G. WHITE, Words and Their Uses, 387. The simple English word (guts) for which some New England females elegantly substitute IN’ARDS, would shock many.

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  1871.  London Figaro, 17 March. The usual answer given to William’s enquiry as to what was found in the shark is, ‘his INNARDS.’

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  TO FILL ONE’S INNARDS, verb. phr. (common).—To eat.

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