gouty

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From Middle English gowty; equivalent to gout +‎ -y.

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gouty (comparative goutier, superlative goutiest)

  1. Suffering from gout.
    • 1893, David Herschell Edwards, One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, volume 15, page 403:
      When days and years proclaim you’re old —
       A dottle, cripple, gouty fellow,
      Then for support you can lay hold
       O’ the upright of your umberella.
    • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 576:
      He helped Crabbe along to the rough landing-stage, a groaning Crabbe sorry for himself, a Crabbe with a bandaged foot, looking like a gouty uncle[.]

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