gout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡaʊt/
rhymes: -aʊt
ipa: [ɡʌut]
Forms: form: gouts
form: gowt
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".
Senses: examples: text: Once gout was confined largely to Western civilization (with some outliers, like the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan); now its ravages are global.
ref: 2020 November 13, Ligaya Mishan, “Once the Disease of Gluttonous Aristocrats, Gout Is Now Tormenting the Masses”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: crystalline arthritis
gouty arthritis
urarthritis
rich man's disease
hypernyms: arthritis
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Alternative forms: gut, gutt
text: I see thee still, / And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood.
ref: 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:
text: ... 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.
ref: 1832, Thomas Arnold, Godwin and Goda (cont'd.), page 155:
text: ... 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.
ref: 1896, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Grey Man, W. Briggs, page 311:
text: ... gouts or drops from the hand of Zeus.
ref: 1914, Arthur Bernard Cook, Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion, CUP Archive, page 323:
text: ... gouts or drops of water on their shield,[…]
ref: 1921, The Bookman's Journal and Print Collector, page 45:
text: [S]mall chunks of rubble and gouts of soot had fallen from the chimney, and were ground into the rug under his unwary feet.
ref: 1981, P. D. James, chapter 20, in Children of Men, page 137:
text: Another blow sent gouts of blood flying, along with gobbets of flesh.
ref: 2002, Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, Dave Freer, The Shadow of the Lion:
text: 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.
ref: 2024 September 28, HarryBlank, “Not Ready for Prime Time”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 29 Sep 2024:
coordinate_terms: goutte
glosses: A drop; a spurt or splotch.
raw_tags: followed by of
glosses: A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.
Derived terms: antigout
French gout
gout fly
goutiness
goutish
gout ivy
goutless
gout plant
gout-ridden
gout stalk
goutweed
goutwort
gouty
pseudogout
Related terms: gutter