gutted
adjective (chiefly British usage)

- disappointed and upset

(Collins English Dictionary)

gut
verb

- to remove the intestines or entrails of an animal

- to extract the essential or major parts of something

- to destroy the interior of something

- to reduce or destroy the effectiveness of something

(American Heritage Dictionary)

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Gutted about Ringo

In January 2004, Alex Dyke, a disc jockey and Beatles fan from the Isle of Wight, bought a life-size waxwork of Ringo Starr on eBay. He rented a car to carry the 5'8" dummy, which he had to split in two. With the lower half in the back seat and the upper half in the trunk, he stopped to repair a tire and accidentally left the upper half on the road.

"Ringo was going to have a place of honour in my living room," he said. "The waxwork is so realistic, with Ringo wearing a pink suit with gold braid, just like on the album cover of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Now all I've got is Ringo's legs and pink trousers. He's half the man he was and I'm gutted."

Etymology: Gut is from the Old English guttas (plural), meaning "bowels, entrails." The connection between the intestines and the emotions is ancient and lead to the use of guts as a synonym for courage (He had the guts to go bungee jumping). With the sense of intestines as the interior, guts then took on an additional meaning as the inside parts of something. The verb form then developed, which denotes destroying or taking out the interior or inside of something in both a literal (a building) and figurative (a law) sense.

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SYNONYMS

crestfallen, disappointed, disheartened, devastated, upset

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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation

"She was gutted to learn that she had lost her job."