gouty adjective. ['gaʊti] LME.
[from GOUT noun¹ + -Y¹.]
1. Affected by or subject to gout. LME.
■ M. Ignatieff Nursing a gouty foot.

2. Swollen or bulging; out of shape, ill-proportioned; distorted, esp. with swellings. L16.
gouty-stem Austral. an Australian tree, Adansonia gregorii, related to the baobab.
b. Full of knots or knobs. obsolete exc. dial. L16.

3. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, gout. E17.
■ S. Richardson The torture of a gouty paroxysm.
b. Used during an attack of gout. obsolete exc. Hist. M18.
■ Horace Walpole Wheeled into the room in gouty chairs.
c. (Supposedly) predisposing to gout. E19.
■ T. Beddoes The weaker wines of France are reputed more gouty than those in common use among the English.

4. Of land: boggy. obsolete exc. Scot. & dial. L17.

■ goutily adverb M19.

■ goutiness noun M17.

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