gouty

comparative goutier · superlative goutiest

1. Suffering from gout.

   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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   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

   Synonyms: gout-ridden