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say it: GUHT-ur
gutter is a noun and verb meaning "a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater". It carries 8 recorded senses.
a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater
misfortune resulting in lost effort or money
“his career was in the gutter”
“all that work went down the sewer”
“pensions are in the toilet”
a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.)
a tool for gutting fish
burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker
“The cooling lava continued to gutter toward lower ground”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gutter come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.