GOUTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gouty mean? 

• GOUTY (adjective)
  The adjective GOUTY has 1 sense:

1. suffering from gout

  Familiarity information: GOUTY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOUTY (adjective)

Comparative: goutier   
Superlative: goutiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Suffering from gout

Similar:

ill; sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function)

Derivation:

gout (a painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by defects in uric acid metabolism resulting in deposits of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints)

 Context examples 

He is thought to be gouty.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He seems a good kind of old fellow enough, and has lived very well in his time, I dare say; he is not gouty for nothing.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Grant's gouty symptoms and Mrs. Grant's morning calls, it was very hard upon her to be deprived of one of the last epistolary uses she could put them to.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

When gouty Professor Wadley limped down to his seat there were general affectionate inquiries from all parts of the hall as to the exact state of his poor toe, which caused him obvious embarrassment.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have this moment heard that the Crofts are going to Bath almost immediately; they think the Admiral gouty.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Allen, who owned the chief of the property about Fullerton, the village in Wiltshire where the Morlands lived, was ordered to Bath for the benefit of a gouty constitution—and his lady, a good-humoured woman, fond of Miss Morland, and probably aware that if adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad, invited her to go with them.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Poor Mr. Norris's indifferent state of health made it an impossibility: he could no more bear the noise of a child than he could fly; if, indeed, he should ever get well of his gouty complaints, it would be a different matter: she should then be glad to take her turn, and think nothing of the inconvenience; but just now, poor Mr. Norris took up every moment of her time, and the very mention of such a thing she was sure would distract him.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)