gut
n.— «A “gut,” in the language of coastal fishing, is a channel in the sand at the edge of the surf. Guts are cut by wave action and the currents that run parallel to the beach.» —“Getting the right words out on coastal fishing can be a gut-wrenching experience” by Ron Henry Strait in Corpus Christi San Antonio Express-News (Texas) Jan. 6, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What do you call a sticky, gooey, gross substance you can’t identify? Lee in San Antonio, Texas, calls it gookumpucky, a word she inherited from her mother and a great-grandmother descended from Czech and Polish immigrants. It belongs to a family of...
A kerfuffle is a fuss, bother, or disturbance. It’s from Scots curfuffle, likely from Scottish Gaelic car, meaning “turn,” “bend,” or “twist,” plus fuffle, a Scots word that means “to disorder” or “to ruffle.” Early forms like carfuffle and...