gout
UK/ɡaʊt/
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gout noun: 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. Also the alternative form of gote.
Noun (1)
gout (countable and uncountable, plural gouts)
- 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
- A drop; a spurt or splotch.
- Alternative forms: gut, gutt
- 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...
- A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.
Verb
gout (third-person singular simple present gouts, present participle gouting, simple past and past participle gouted)
- To spurt.
- Dark blood gouts from the creature's brisket.2001, Stephen King, Peter Straub, Black House
Noun (2)
gout (plural gouts)
- Taste; relish.
- After a time, however, he became more sensible of the reviving influence proceeding from renewed energy; luxurious indolence had for ever lost to him its goût;[…]1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XVIII, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 232
- A modern refinement is to put laver in the dripping-pan, which, in basting, imparts a high gout: or a large saddle may be served over a pound and a half of laver, stewed in brown sauce with catsup […]1870, The Cook and Housewife's Manual, 5th edition
Also used as
gout is also the alternative form of gote.
gout meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Telugu and Kannada
gout in Hindi
- arthritic disease
- वातरक्त vātrakt
gout in Bengali
- গাউট, গাউটিং করা, গাউট করা
gout in Telugu
- గౌట్
gout in Kannada
- ಗೌಟ್
More languagesFewer languages
- gout in Punjabi
- ਗਾਊਟ gāūṭa
- gout in Odia
- ଗାଉଟ, ଗାଉଟ କରିବା, ଗାଉଟକୁ
- gout in Nepali
- बात bāt, बाथ bāth, गाउट gāuṭ, युरिक एसिडको रोग yurik esiḍko rog
- gout in Tagalog
- piyo, gota
- gout in Arabic
- رَثْيَة raṯya, نِقْرِس niqris
- gout in Malay
- gout
- gout in Indonesian
- asam urat, gout, pirai
- gout in Thai
- เกาต์ gáo
- gout in Vietnamese
- thống phong
Examples of gout in a sentence
- ... there sprang a gout of black and oozy blood.1896, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Grey Man, W. Briggs, page 311:
- ... gouts or drops from the hand of Zeus.1914, Arthur Bernard Cook, Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion, CUP Archive, page 323:
- ... gouts or drops of water on their shield,[…]1921, The Bookman's Journal and Print Collector, page 45:
- [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:
Synonyms of gout
Forms of gout
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | gouts |
| alternative form (obsolete) | gowt |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | gouts |
| present participle | gouting |
| past participle | gouted |
| past | gouted |
Origin of gout
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".
Borrowed from French goût.
Words formed from gout
Phrases with gout
Words that rhyme with gout
42 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- set about
- shout
- sprout
- doubt
- umlaut
- fill out
- grout
- pout
- devout
- drought
- nowt
- redoubt
- throughout
- without
- ablaut
- dout
- flout
- lout
- mahout
- misdoubt
- mought
- prone out
- strout
- term out
- trout
- zoom out
- 'bout
- anlaut
- aspout
- asprout
- bluff out
- chout
- dought
- knout
- kraut
- layabout
- ne'er cast a clout till May be out
- owt
- peter out
- regrout
- sout
- when in doubt, do nowt
Questions about gout
- What does gout mean?
- Gout means 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.
- What is gout in Hindi?
- Gout in Hindi is वातरक्त (vātrakt). See Gout meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use gout in a sentence?
- ... there sprang a gout of black and oozy blood.
- What part of speech is gout?
- Gout can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce gout?
- Gout is pronounced /ɡaʊt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of gout?
- The plural of gout is gouts.
Words near gout in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: gout (page history and authors); gout (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gout (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gout (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gout (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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