insides

[in-sahydz]

plural noun

1. Sometimes inside the inner parts of the body, especially the stomach and intestines.

   The coffee scalded my insides.

noun

1. the plural of inside.

Word History and Origins

Origin of insides¹

First recorded in 1500–10; inside ( def. ) + -s ³ ( def. )

Example Sentences

"Hunger is not something you can ignore or put out of your mind, it gnaws at your insides with increasing intensity," she continued, adding that hunger is particularly disruptive for children.

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“Give that to me,” I demand, my voice and my insides shaking.

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A pang of some unfamiliar feeling poked at her insides, someplace not too distant from her heart.

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“It feels like my insides are digesting themselves,” he wrote to his wife in mid-September.

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“It was me picking at my insides about the grief and disappointment I was dealing with,” she said.

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Related Words

• belly 
• entrails 
• innards