Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a glutton, a selfish person; thus greedy-gutted adj., gluttonous, selfish.

1546		J. Heywood Proverbs I Ch. xi: They be bothe greedy guts all given to get, / They care not how.
1566		G. Gascoigne (trans.) Supposes II iv: Ah greedy gut, art thou afeared thou shalt want?
1567		Trial of Treasure Biii: Now welcome in faith, and good Gredy gutte also.
1576		Tyde taryeth no Man in Collier (1863) II 16: The preacher brake out with reproacheable talke [...] Some of vs, he sayeth, are greedy guttes all.
1643		Horn & Robotham (trans.) Gate of Languages Unlocked Ch. 84 820: A greedygut (eat-all, gutlin) and gormandizer, by ravening (gobling up) and tipling (swilling), glutteth (crammeth) and over-gorgeth himself.
1677		Poor Robin’s Almanac q. in Liverpool Dly Post 25 Feb. 9/4: Pancakes are eat by greedy-gut / And Hob and Madge run for the slut.
1705		E. Hickeringill Priest-Craft II 44: Give us then, at least, what once belonged to the Clergy [...] says, greedy Guts!
1772		Coles Eng. Dict. [F&H].
c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Greedy Guts. a Covetous or Voracious person.
1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn).
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1819		Examiner 8 Aug. 10/2: Glutton, Gourmandizer, Greedygut, Bellygod.
1822		Devizes & Wilts Gaz. 18 July 4/4: Put on the pot, says Greedy-guy, / we’ll sup before we go.
1823		‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. 92: Guts — ‘Greedy-guts,’ who will eat all the world up.
1833		A. Greene Life and Adventures of Dr Dodimus Duckworth I 89: Gray-eye, greedy-gut, eat all the world up!
1848		Northampton Mercury 22 July 2/4: The chief servant [...] the incarnation of ‘Greedy-gut’ [...] biting off the ends of the rolls and cakes.
1850		‘Three Wishes’ Story Teller 12: Plague on your greedy guts with your black pudding!
1879		‘Miss Coote’s Confession’ in Pearl 4 Oct. 8: Listen to Grey Eyes Greedy Guts, you’d think none of us ever played with the Van Tromp.
1886		Western Times 28 May 2/4: Gooble-gut — a greedy person, sometimes greedy-guts.
1898		E. Pugh Tony Drum 17: ‘Give us a bit, Billy,’ said Tony. ‘Shan’t,’ said Billy. ‘All right, greedy guts,’ said Tony.
1908		Bulletin (Sydney) 10 Dec. 16/1: He’s the noted greedy guts of the town.
1910		P.W. Joyce Eng. As We Speak It In Ireland.
1921		Mencken letter 15 Dec. in Riggio Dreiser-Mencken Letters II (1986) 422: Greedy-gut!
1926		M. Forrest Hibiscus Heart 114: I expect you’re eating all the conversation lollies [...] Greedy-guts — greedy guts.
1946		(con. 1912) B. Marshall George Brown’s Schooldays 23: That stinking greedy gutz Henson.
1959		I. & P. Opie Lore and Lang. of Schoolchildren (1977) 187: They ask a greedy-guts (‘gutsy’ for short) ‘Do you eat to live or live to eat?’.
1960		B. Kops Dream of Peter Mann Act II: We worry ourselves sick and greedy-guts in there guzzles himself sick.
1971		K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers I i: I ate nothing — you greedy gutted little thing! [...] You always steal me bit of damper an’ that you greedy guts gerl!
1980		Barltrop & Wolveridge Muvver Tongue 90: He may also be called [...] ‘greedy-guts’.
1997		S. Armitage ‘The Cup’ CloudCuckooLand 78: Greedy-guts here put it to his lips.
2001		K. Sampson Outlaws (ms.) 90: Must be some designer, Tommy Fullfigure by the looks of them two greedyguts.

2. attrib. use of sense 1.

1948		Z.N. Hurston Seraph on the Suwanee (1995) 825: Them greedy-gut devils had done et up all the feed.
1971		K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers I i: I ate nothing — you greedy gutted little thing! [...] You always steal me bit of damper an’ that you greedy guts gerl!