gound

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Mucus produced by the eyes during sleep. UK,dialectal,uncountable
    — Typical terms invented to fill this vacuum include sleepies, eye-snot, and bed-boogers. The correct word, however, is gound. "Collin was never one to dillydally in the morning: by the time he had rubbed the gound out of his eyes he was usually on his third Manhattan."
  2. Gummy matter in sore eyes. UK,dialectal,uncountable

词形变化

gund alternative,dialectal

词汇关系

近义词
synonyms at sleep
衍生词
goundy
相关词
red-gum

词源

From Middle English gounde, gownde, from Old English gund (“matter, pus, poison”), from Proto-West Germanic *gund, from Proto-Germanic *gundaz (“sore, boil”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰendʰ- (“ulcer, sore, abscess, boil”). Cognate with Old High German gunt (“purulent matter”), dialectal Norwegian gund (“the scab of an ulcer”).
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