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gout-ridden en · ADJ

Etymology

From gout + ridden.

Meanings

1. Suffering from or affected by gout.
   • Oh, how I have been deceived! For years I have worshiped that miserable gout-ridden professor. 1922, Anton Chekhov, translated by Jenny Covan, Uncle Vanya, published 1897, act II, page 29:
   • 1909, Maud Margaret Key Stawell (as “Mrs. Rodolph Stawell”) (translator), The Return of Louis XVIII by Gilbert Stenger, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, Chapter 2, p. 67, Could anyone have imagined that the day would come when this prince, whose gout-ridden feet could only move in spasms, would in his turn be acclaimed in Paris as though he too were a conqueror?
   • c. 1945-1950, Jack Spicer, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Landscape” in Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian (editors), My Vocabulary Did This to Me, Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008, Gout-ridden angel, out of these terrors, Out of the mind’s infidelity and the heart’s horror Deliver my natural body.
   • Judith Herries, sister to Raiseley and first cousin to David, had, many years before, bewildered into matrimony the Honourable Ernest Bligh, who in his gout-ridden and exceedingly ill-tempered old age had become Lord Monyngham, then Viscount Rockage. 1931, Hugh Walpole, Judith Paris, London: Macmillan, Part II, p. 203:

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Synonyms

gouty