gouty
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English gowty; equivalent to gout + -y.
Adjective[edit]
gouty (comparative goutier, superlative goutiest)
- 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[.]