gout

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
美 /ɡaʊt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints. uncountable
    — Once gout was confined largely to Western civilization (with some outliers, like the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan); now its ravages are global.
  2. Alternative form of gote (“sluice, ditch, drain; vault”). alt-of,alternative
    — ... Anton's Gout, let it be enlarged to whatever extent it may. The Sill of Anton's Gout is 2 feet 3 inches higher than the Sill of Maud Foster, and the surface of the water, in times when there is a full quantity in the Witham, and as[…]
  3. Taste; relish. obsolete
    — After a time, however, he became more sensible of the reviving influence proceeding from renewed energy; luxurious indolence had for ever lost to him its goût;[…]
  4. A drop; a spurt or splotch. countable,uncountable,usually
    — Alternative forms: gut, gutt
  5. A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae. countable,rare,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To spurt. intransitive
    — Dark blood gouts from the creature's brisket.

词形变化

gouts plural gowt alternative,obsolete gouts present,singular,third-person gouting participle,present gouted participle,past gouted past gouts plural gouts plural

词汇关系

衍生词
antigout French gout gout fly goutiness goutish gout ivy goutless gout plant gout-ridden gout stalk goutweed goutwort gouty pseudogout
相关词
gutter

词源

词源 1
From Middle English goute, from Old French gote, gute, from Latin gutta (“drop”). Compare Spanish gota (“drop, droplet”). Doublet of goutte and gutta.
The sense shift derived from humorism and "the notion of the 'dropping' of a morbid material from the blood in and around the joints".
词源 2
Etymology tree
French goûtbor.
English gout
Borrowed from French goût.
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