gouty

Etymology

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

adj

  1. Suffering from gout.
    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. 1893, David Herschell Edwards, One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, volume 15, page 403
    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[.] 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 576

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