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gout¹
- /ɡaʊt/ UK, US
- [ɡʌut] Canada
Rhymes with -aʊt
Where it comes from
From Middle English goute, from Old French gote, gute, from Latin gutta (“drop”). Compare Spanish gota (“drop, droplet”). Doublet of goutte and gutta.
The sense shift derived from humorism and "the notion of the 'dropping' of a morbid material from the blood in and around the joints".
noun gouts · gowt
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An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints.
Once gout was confined largely to Western civilization (with some outliers, like the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan); now its ravages are global.
Similar: crystalline arthritis, gouty arthritis, urarthritis, rich man's disease
- A drop; a spurt or splotch. Alternative forms: gut, gutt
- A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.
verb gouts · gouting · gouted
- To spurt. Dark blood gouts from the creature's brisket.
gout²
noun gouts
- Alternative form of gote (“sluice, ditch, drain; vault”). ... Anton's Gout, let it be enlarged to whatever extent it may. The Sill of Anton's Gout is 2 feet 3 inches higher than the Sill of Maud Foster, and the surface of the water, in times when there is a full quantity in the Witham, and as[…]
gout³
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French goût.
noun gouts
- Taste; relish. After a time, however, he became more sensible of the reviving influence proceeding from renewed energy; luxurious indolence had for ever lost to him its goût;[…]
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: urarthritis, gouty arthritis, podagra, drop, drip, splash, trickle, tophaceous, taste, straw, sip, pint, bit, dash, retrocedent, quart
Translations
Every language
noun arthritic disease
| Español | gota, podagra, quiragra |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 통풍 tongpung |
| 日本語 | 痛風 |
| 中文 | 痛風 /痛风 tòngfēng |
| हिन्दी | वातरक्त vātrakt |
| Português | gota |
| Français | goutte |
| Deutsch | Gicht |
| Italiano | gotta, podagra |
| Ελληνικά | ποδάγρα podágra, ουρική αρθρίτιδα ourikí arthrítida |
| Română | gută, podagră |
| Русский | пода́гра podágra |
| Tiếng Việt | thống phong |
| العربية | رَثْيَة raṯya, نِقْرِس niqris |
| עברית | שגדון shigadon |
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title = {gout},
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