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gout-ridden

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Suffering from or affected by gout.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1909, Maud Margaret Key Stawell (as “Mrs. Rodolph Stawell”) (translator), The Return of Louis XVIII by Gilbert Stenger, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, Chapter 2, p. 67, Could anyone have imagined that the day would come when this prince, whose gout-ridden feet could only move in spasms, would in his turn be acclaimed in Paris as though he too were a conqueror?
  • c. 1945-1950, Jack Spicer, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Landscape” in Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian (editors), My Vocabulary Did This to Me, Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008, Gout-ridden angel, out of these terrors, Out of the mind’s infidelity and the heart’s horror Deliver my natural body.

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History

Etymology

From gout + ridden.