Other Word Forms
- goutily adverb
- goutiness noun
- ungouty adjective
Etymology
Origin of gouty
late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; see origin at gout, -y 1
Example Sentences
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The money he makes, running the farm with his unmarried niece, goes to support life in the city for his fatuous, gouty sort-of-ex-brother-in-law, an art professor who “knows nothing about art.”
From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2024
As for the wide-angle shots that keep distorting even the plainest of compositions, we get the point: all of high society, and not just the creature at its apex, is gouty with excess.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2018
He recalled lying on a sofa, with his gouty foot resting on a pillow, when a visiting aunt passed by; the chiffon scarf she was wearing slipped from her neck and lightly touched his foot.
From The Guardian • Jan. 25, 2017
Etching by James Gillray, published 1799, showing an obese gouty man drinking punch with two friends.
From BBC • Jan. 21, 2014
Lord Walder was ninety, a wizened pink weasel with a bald spotted head, too gouty to stand unassisted.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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