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gouty-handed

gouty-handed adjective: suffering from gout in the hands.

Adjective

gouty-handed (comparative more gouty-handed, superlative most gouty-handed)

  1. Suffering from gout in the hands.
  2. (idiomatic, obsolete) Slow to reward.
    • In matters of disbursement he was (to use an eighteenth century idiom) “monstrous gouty-handed."1919, The American Architect - Volume 116, Part 2, page 791

Forms of gouty-handed

comparativemore gouty-handed
superlativemost gouty-handed

Origin of gouty-handed

From gouty + handed.

Questions about gouty-handed

What does gouty-handed mean?
Gouty-handed means suffering from gout in the hands.
What part of speech is gouty-handed?
Gouty-handed is an adjective.

Words near gouty-handed in the dictionary

  1. goutweed
  2. goutwort
  3. goutworts
  4. gouty
  5. gouty arthritis
  6. gouty-handed
  7. goutystalk nettlespurge
  8. goutystalk nettlespurges
  9. gouté
  10. gouvernance
  11. gouvernances

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