gout en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
Etymology
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".
Meanings
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(uncountable) 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.
2020 November 13, Ligaya Mishan, “Once the Disease of Gluttonous Aristocrats, Gout Is Now Tormenting the Masses”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2020:
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(countable, followed by of, uncountable, usually) A drop; a spurt or splotch.
McInnis staggered back and to his feet, the chair flying aside, as a gout of blood spurted from the open wound. Veiksaar screamed, and reached up to claw at her husband's face with her fingernails.
2024 September 28, HarryBlank, “Not Ready for Prime Time”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 29 Sep 2024:I see thee still, / And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood.
c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 136:... gouts or drops from the hand of Zeus.
1914, Arthur Bernard Cook, Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion, CUP Archive, page 323:[S]mall chunks of rubble and gouts of soot had fallen from the chimney, and were ground into the rug under his unwary feet.
1981, P. D. James, chapter 20, in Children of Men, page 137:Another blow sent gouts of blood flying, along with gobbets of flesh.
2002, Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, Dave Freer, The Shadow of the Lion:... of whose wounds were undefined - and every throb of the veins added length to some of the red streams, that wound down the hollows of the indrawn cheeks - some of them ending in half-clotted gouts or drops.
1832, Thomas Arnold, Godwin and Goda (cont'd.), page 155:Alternative forms: gut, gutt
... there sprang a gout of black and oozy blood. Whereat a great cry went up and James Mure fell forward on the sand as one suddenly stricken dead.
1896, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Grey Man, W. Briggs, page 311:... gouts or drops of water on their shield,[…]
1921, The Bookman's Journal and Print Collector, page 45:
- (countable, rare, uncountable) A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| gouts | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| gowt | alternative, obsolete | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Deriveds
goutless · gout ivy · gout plant · gout fly · pseudogout · goutish · goutwort · goutiness · gout-ridden · goutweed · antigout · French gout · gout stalk · gouty
Descendants
Hypernyms
Relateds
Synonyms
rich man's disease · crystalline arthritis · urarthritis · gouty arthritis
Translations (94)
fo gikt (arthritic disease) · fi kihti (arthritic disease) · id pirai (arthritic disease) · ne गाउट (arthritic disease) · ar نِقْرِس (arthritic disease) · ka ნიკრისის ქარი (arthritic disease) · th เกาต์ (arthritic disease) · mn ᠲᠤᠯᠠᠶᠢᠲᠣᠬᠤ (arthritic disease) · bg подагра (arthritic disease) · es podagra (arthritic disease) · mi porohau (arthritic disease) · lo ເກົາ (arthritic disease) · pl dna (arthritic disease) · ms gout (arthritic disease) · it gotta (arthritic disease) · eo podagro (arthritic disease) · uk подагра (arthritic disease) · az podaqra (arthritic disease) · ja 痛風 (arthritic disease) · vi thống phong (arthritic disease) · pa ਗਾਊਟ (arthritic disease) · mn ᠲᠤᠯᠠᠢ ᠡᠪᠡᠳᠴᠢᠨ (arthritic disease) · ko 통풍 (arthritic disease) · de Gicht (arthritic disease) · ne बाथ (arthritic disease) · mi koute (arthritic disease) · nb gikt (arthritic disease) · hy պոդագրա (arthritic disease) · tl piyo (arthritic disease) · es gota (arthritic disease) · vo futagig (arthritic disease) · tl gota (arthritic disease) · cmn 痛風 /痛风 (arthritic disease) · sk dna (arthritic disease) · nl jicht (arthritic disease) · ovd djikt (arthritic disease) · ro podagră (arthritic disease) · mk гихт (arthritic disease) · ne युरिक एसिडको रोग (arthritic disease) · it podagra (arthritic disease) · ru пода́гра (arthritic disease) · sh giht (arthritic disease) · lv podagra (arthritic disease) · hy հոդատապ (arthritic disease) · sq gutë (arthritic disease) · sv gikt (arthritic disease) · kk тұзжиналу (arthritic disease) · id gout (arthritic disease) · ar رَثْيَة (arthritic disease) · tr gut (arthritic disease) · lb Giicht (arthritic disease) · sl protin (arthritic disease) · ang fōtādl (arthritic disease) · mk подагра (arthritic disease) · da gigt (arthritic disease) · vo jotagig (arthritic disease) · kl gigti (arthritic disease) · mn тулай өвчин (arthritic disease) · yue 痛風 /痛风 (arthritic disease) · gl gota (arthritic disease) · se leasmi (arthritic disease) · hu köszvény (arthritic disease) · dsb popajź (arthritic disease) · ca gota (arthritic disease) · lt podagra (arthritic disease) · la gutta (arthritic disease) · nn gikt (arthritic disease) · la podagra (arthritic disease) · he שגדון (arthritic disease) · cs dna (arthritic disease) · sl putika (arthritic disease) · mn тулайтах (arthritic disease) · eu hezueri (arthritic disease) · el ποδάγρα (arthritic disease) · pt gota (arthritic disease) · tr damla hastalığı (arthritic disease) · zza bılık (arthritic disease) · is gigt (arthritic disease) · kl avallunneq (arthritic disease) · sh kostobolja (arthritic disease) · el ουρική αρθρίτιδα (arthritic disease) · vo gig (arthritic disease) · ro gută (arthritic disease) · grc ποδάγρα (arthritic disease) · hsb wić (arthritic disease) · fr goutte (arthritic disease) · es quiragra (arthritic disease) · sq podagër (arthritic disease) · se leasmedávda (arthritic disease) · cs pakostnice (arthritic disease) · hi वातरक्त (arthritic disease) · rm gutta (arthritic disease) · ne बात (arthritic disease) · id asam urat (arthritic disease)