insides
- 1The internal organs of the body, especially the stomach, intestines, and other guts.
The blow knocked the wind out of him and seemed to twist his insides.
Something she ate disagreed with her, and her insides ached all night.
Similarguts, innards, stomach, bowels
Note
A plural with no singular to fall back on. Nobody has an inside that aches, only insides. It takes a plural verb, as in her insides ached or his insides were churning. It usually comes with a possessive, because it names a person's own body felt from within: twisted by a blow, upset by something eaten.
- 2Plural of inside.
Workers painted the insides of the two storage tanks last week.
The insides of the old clocks were rusted and seized up.
Note
A regular plural, used when several interiors are meant at once: the insides of two tanks, of a row of clocks. The singular has other countable senses, and the plural can follow them too. In older British usage, insides were the passengers riding within a coach rather than up on the outside. When the body is meant, the word shifts to the "guts" meaning, which behaves differently.
insides is a form of inside
inside, noun: The interior portion of something; its inner part as distinct from the outer surface. Full entry
- Forms
- insideinsides plural
- Spelling
- inside → insides: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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