gouty

English

Etymology

From Middle English gowty; equivalent to gout +‎ -y.

Adjective

gouty (comparative goutier, superlative goutiest)

1. Suffering from gout.
   • 1893, David Herschell Edwards, One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, volume 15, page 403:

     When days and years proclaim you’re old —
      A dottle, cripple, gouty fellow,
     Then for support you can lay hold
      O’ the upright of your umberella.

   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 576:

     He helped Crabbe along to the rough landing-stage, a groaning Crabbe sorry for himself, a Crabbe with a bandaged foot, looking like a gouty uncle[.]

Synonyms

• gout-ridden

Derived terms

• gouty-handed

Translations

suffering from gout

• Italian: ingottito (it)
• Old English: fōtādliġ

Anagrams

• Guyot, guyot