gout
Plural: gouts
Noun
- A disease causing painful inflammation of the joints.
- a painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by defects in uric acid metabolism resulting in deposits of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints
- 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.
- A drop; a spurt or splotch.
- A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.
- Alternative form of gote (“sluice, ditch, drain; vault”).
- Taste; relish.
Verb
- To spurt.
Examples
- His opponent suffered a metaphorical GOUT of bad tiles, leading to frustration.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English goute, from Old French gote, gute, from Latin gutta (“drop”). Compare Spanish gota (“drop, droplet”). Doublet of goutte, gutta, and gutter.
The sense shift derived from humorism and "the notion of the 'dropping' of a morbid material from the blood in and around the joints".
Synonyms
gouty arthritis, urarthritis, crystalline arthritis, rich man's disease
Scrabble Score: 5
gout: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgout: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
gout: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 7
gout: valid Words With Friends Word