The difference between Guts and Pluck
When used as verbs, guts means to show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out), whereas pluck means to pull something sharply.
Pluck is also noun with the meaning: an instance of plucking.
check bellow for the other definitions of Guts and Pluck
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Guts as a noun:
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Guts as a noun:
The entrails or contents of the abdomen.
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Guts as a noun (slang):
Courage; determination.
Examples:
"It must have taken some guts to speak in front of that audience."
"She doesn't take any nonsense from anyone—she's got guts."
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Guts as a noun (slang):
Content, substance.
Examples:
"His speech had no guts in it."
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Guts as a noun (in the plural):
The essential, core parts.
Examples:
"He knew all about the guts of the business, how things actually get done."
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Guts as a noun (slang):
One's innermost feelings.
Examples:
"If you need someone to spill your guts out to, I'm here."
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Guts as a verb:
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Guts as a verb (informal):
To show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out).
Examples:
"He gutsed out a 6-1 win."
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Pluck as a verb (transitive):
To pull something sharply; to pull something out
Examples:
"She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled."
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Pluck as a verb (transitive):
To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
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Pluck as a verb (transitive, music):
To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
Examples:
"Whereas a piano strikes the string, a harpsichord plucks it."
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Pluck as a verb (transitive):
To remove feathers from a bird.
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Pluck as a verb (transitive):
To rob, fleece, steal forcibly
Examples:
"The horny highwayman plucked his victims to their underwear, or attractive ones all the way."
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Pluck as a verb (transitive):
To play a string instrument pizzicato.
Examples:
"'Plucking a bow instrument may cause a string to break."
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Pluck as a verb (intransitive):
To pull or twitch sharply.
Examples:
"to pluck at somebody's sleeve"
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Pluck as a verb (UK, universities):
To reject at an examination for degrees.
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Pluck as a noun:
An instance of plucking
Examples:
"Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck"
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Pluck as a noun:
The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
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Pluck as a noun (informal):
Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
Examples:
"He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck."
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Pluck as a noun (AAVE, slang):
Cheap wine.