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goutily

goutily adverb: in a gouty manner; as if affected with gout.

Adverb

goutily (comparative more goutily, superlative most goutily)

  1. In a gouty manner; as if affected with gout.
    • He hobbled goutily away.
    • the iron pins of the flagstaff creaked goutily and painfully; the flagstaffs themselves bent as though they were the masts of a fleet of houses moored in a roadstead of bricks.1901, Louis Couperus, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, Small Souls, Chapter XXII

Forms of goutily

comparativemore goutily
superlativemost goutily

Origin of goutily

From gouty + -ly.

Questions about goutily

What does goutily mean?
Goutily means in a gouty manner; as if affected with gout.
What part of speech is goutily?
Goutily is an adverb.

Words near goutily in the dictionary

  1. goutiest
  2. goutified
  3. goutifies
  4. goutify
  5. goutifying
  6. goutily
  7. goutiness
  8. goutinesses
  9. gouting
  10. goutish
  11. Goutières

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