gound
/ˈɡaʊ̯nd/
gound noun: mucus produced by the eyes during sleep.
Noun
gound (uncountable)
- Mucus produced by the eyes during sleep.
- Typical terms invented to fill this vacuum include sleepies, eye-snot, and bed-boogers. The correct word, however, is gound. "Collin was never one to dillydally in the morning: by the time he had rubbed the gound out of his eyes he was usually on his third Manhattan."2002, Peter Novobatzky, Ammon Shea, Depraved and Insulting English
- Your eyes get dried mucus in them while you sleep. The stuff is sometimes called bed-boogers or eye-snot, but to be accurate, it is "gound".2004, Bart King, Chris Sabatino, The Big Book of Boy Stuff
- Gummy matter in sore eyes.
gound meaning in Gujarati
gound in Gujarati
- gound
- ચીપડો cīpḍo, પીયો pīyo
Examples of gound in a sentence
- When you're awake, you blink away the gound.2016, Darla Duhaime, Gross Body Stuff, page 16:
- While you sleep, however, your rheum bundles detritus such as dust, blood cells, skin cells, and mucus into gound, the gummy yellow-y stuff sometimes known as “sleep” […]2017, Carol Ann Rinzler, Spare Parts: In Praise of Your Appendix and Other Unappreciated Organs:
Synonyms of gound
- synonyms at sleep
Forms of gound
| alternative form (dialectal) | gund |
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Origin of gound
From Middle English gounde, gownde, from Old English gund (“matter, pus, poison”), from Proto-West Germanic *gund, from Proto-Germanic *gundaz (“sore, boil”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰendʰ- (“ulcer, sore, abscess, boil”). Cognate with Old High German gunt (“purulent matter”), dialectal Norwegian gund (“the scab of an ulcer”).
Words formed from gound
Words that rhyme with gound
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- abound
- bound
- hound
- profound
- impound
- unbound
- underground
- crowned
- found
- remound
- surround
- unsound
- aground
- embrowned
- expound
- overground
- sqround
- surround sound
- unconfound
- uncrowned
- astound
- baffound
- below ground
- blound
- browned
- charging the mound
- clowned
- downed
- drowned
- found sound
- frowned
- gowned
- interwound
- lb
- newfound
- overwound
- playaround
- reground
- renowned
- rewound
- unfound
- unrenowned
- unwound
- wound
- York round
Questions about gound
- What does gound mean?
- Gound means mucus produced by the eyes during sleep.
- What is gound in Gujarati?
- Gound in Gujarati is ચીપડો (cīpḍo), પીયો (pīyo). See Gound meaning in Gujarati.
- How do you use gound in a sentence?
- When you're awake, you blink away the gound.
- What part of speech is gound?
- Gound is a noun.
- How do you pronounce gound?
- Gound is pronounced /ˈɡaʊ̯nd/.
Words near gound in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: gound (page history and authors); ચીપડો (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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