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gound

/ˈɡaʊ̯nd/

Sounds like gowned · Rhymes with -aʊnd

Where it comes from

From Middle English gounde, gownde, from Old English gund (“matter, pus, poison”), from Proto-West Germanic *gund, from Proto-Germanic *gundaz (“sore, boil”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰendʰ- (“ulcer, sore, abscess, boil”). Cognate with Old High German gunt (“purulent matter”), dialectal Norwegian gund (“the scab of an ulcer”).

noun gund

UK, dialectal, uncountable Mucus produced by the eyes during sleep. Typical terms invented to fill this vacuum include sleepies, eye-snot, and bed-boogers. The correct word, however, is gound. "Collin was never one to dillydally in the morning: by the time he had rubbed the gound out of his eyes he was usually on his third Manhattan."
UK, dialectal, uncountable Gummy matter in sore eyes.

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@misc{gound_2026,
  title = {gound},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gound},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}