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gout.

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.

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noun/ɡaʊt/UK, US[ɡʌut]Canada

  1. 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.

    uncountable

  2. A drop; a spurt or splotch.

    countable · uncountable · usually

  3. A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.

    countable · rare · uncountable
Where this word comes from

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".

verb/ɡaʊt/UK, US[ɡʌut]Canada

  1. To spurt.

    intransitive
Where this word comes from

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".

noun

  1. Taste; relish.

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from French goût.

noun

  1. Alternative form of gote (“sluice, ditch, drain; vault”).

    alt-of · alternative
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