gout
noun
an acute, recurrent disease characterized by painful inflammation of the joints, chiefly those in the feet and hands, and especially in the great toe, and by an excess of uric acid in the blood.
Example Sentences
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Olga Knipper-Tchekova and Mr. Stanislawski appear as the coy wife of a provincial official and the goutily affectionate nobleman whom she makes a fool of quite adequately.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the fruit is free from acid, or almost so; its marmalade may be eaten by the goutily disposed with more impunity than that made with the Seville orange.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
He was limping goutily home with the Vice, at something after midnight, when, as they passed the stage-door of the Empire, both men were aware of fearsome sounds within the building.
From The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories by Arnold Bennett
That elderly man who hobbles goutily out of his club and walks a few short blocks to his house on Murray Hill, “for exercise”?
From Penguin Persons & Peppermints by Walter Prichard Eaton
