The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue dates from 1811 and this is probably the only full, uncensored and searchable version of this dictionary on the internet. All the original crudities have been restored and it offers an interesting perspective on Common English from the time of the Regency and Jane Austen.

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Entries releated to GUTS

 

BRAINS		If you had as much brains as guts, what a clever fellow you would be! a saying to a stupid fat fellow. To have some guts in his brains; to know something.
CUPBOARD LOVE		Pretended love to the cook, or any other person, for the sake of a meal. My guts cry cupboard; i.e. I am hungry
DEVIL'S GUTS		A surveyor's chain: so called by farmers, who do not like their land should be measured by their landlords.
FLASH		To shew ostentatiously. To flash one's ivory; to laugh and shew one's teeth. Don't flash your ivory, but shut your potatoe trap, and keep your guts warm; the Devil loves hot tripes.
GREEDY GUTS		A covetous or voracious person.
GUNDIGUTS		A fat, pursy fellow.
GUTS		My great guts are ready to eat my little ones; my guts begin to think my throat's cut; my guts curse my teeth: all expressions signifying the party is extremely hungry.
GUTS AND GARBAGE		A very fat man or woman. More guts than brains; a silly fellow. He has plenty of guts, but no bowels: said of a hard, merciless, unfeeling person.
GUZZLE GUTS		One greedy of liquor.
KICKS		Breeches. A high kick; the top of the fashion. It is all the kick; it is the present mode. Tip us your kicks, we'll have them as well as your lour; pull off your breeches, for we must have them as well as your money. A kick; sixpence. Two and a kick; half-a-crown. A kick in the guts; a dram of gin, or any other spirituous liquor. A kick up; a disturbance, also a hop or dance. An odd kick in one's gallop; a strange whim or peculiarity.
PLAISTER OF WARM GUTS		One warm belly'dapped to another; a receipt frequently prescribed for different disorders.
POULTERER		A person that guts letters; i.e. opens them and secretes the money. The kiddey was topped for the poultry rig; the young fellow was hanged for secreting a letter and taking out the contents.
PUDDINGS		The guts: I'll let out your puddings.
PUFF GUTS		A fat man.
ROT GUT		Small beer; called beer-a-bumble - will burst one's guts before it will make one tumble.
RUSTY GUTS		A blunt surly fellow: a jocular misnomer of RESTICUS.
TRIPE		The belly, or guts. Mr. Double Tripe; a fat man. Tripes and trullibubs; the entrails: also a jeering appellation for a fat man.