gouty-handed

adjective

Suffering from gout in the hands.

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Meanings

adjectivegouty-handed (comparative more gouty-handed, superlative most gouty-handed)

comparative more gouty-handed · superlative most gouty-handed

  1. Suffering from gout in the hands.
  2. idiomaticobsoleteSlow to reward.

    In matters of disbursement he was (to use an eighteenth century idiom) “monstrous gouty-handed."

    1919, The American Architect - Volume 116, Part 2, page 791

Origin

From gouty + handed.

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gouty-handed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gouty-handed

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“gouty-handed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gouty-handed. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gouty-handed,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gouty-handed.

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