gouty
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- adjective
- /ˈɡaʊti/
- Specialized
:
gota
- Oh, yeah, those gouty, florid, overweight Englishmen.
Examples
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Mrs. Kittredge's brother, Baron Dennis Dugdale, was upstairs in his rooms, his gouty right foot swathed in bandages.
Fiction book (1991) -
May his next gouty attack be a severe one.
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Excepting Dr. Griffin, coming to look at my gouty old foot.
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And what becomes of his excellency the governor's gouty foot?
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May Mr. Johnson's next gouty attack end more favorably.
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Don't talk to him like that' you gouty old cripple!
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"There is no one now, I suppose, who does not recognize that this pain in the foot and lameness were gouty expressions of internal disorder."
Academic text (2001) -
Are you one of the gouty mulberry tea drinkers?
Blog text (33) -
The light of an oil lamp silhouetted the gouty build of the Abbe.
Fiction book (1992) -
After a long hike, he regretted his choice of shoes when his gouty foot began to throb.
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
Painful joint swelling caused by uric acid crystals, often in the big toe
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word gouty comes from gout, which comes from the Latin word gutta, meaning 'a drop'. People long ago thought a tiny 'drop' of bad fluid fell into a joint and caused sharp pain, so gouty describes someone 'suffering from gout' with swollen, painful joints.