different between aout vs gout

English

Preposition

aout

1. (rare) Eye dialect spelling of out.
   • 1895, Harry Jones, Fifty Years: Or, Dead Leaves and Living Seeds, page 144

     ... and aout he come rasher nor iver, knockin' here and knockin' there, tell you couldn't hardly sleep for he.

   • 1919, Thomas Burke, Out and about London, page 115

     Git aout, else I'll split yer faice !

   • 1936, H.P. Lovecraft, "Shadow over Innsmouth":

     Ye see, they was able to live both in ant aout o' water–what they call amphibians, I guess.

Anagrams

• Auto, Auto., auto, auto-, auto., outa

French

Noun

aout m (plural aouts)

1. Post-1990 spelling of août.

Further reading

• “aout” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French gote, gute, from Latin gutta (“drop”). Compare Spanish gota (“drop, droplet”). Doublet of goutte and gutta.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?a?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [??ut]

Noun

gout (countable and uncountable, plural gouts)

1. (uncountable, pathology) 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.

   Synonyms: crystalline arthritis, gouty arthritis, urarthritis

   Hypernym: arthritis
2. (usually followed by of) A spurt or splotch.
3. (rare) A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.

Derived terms

• goutiness
• gout-ridden
• gouty
• pseudogout

Related terms

• gutter

Descendants

• Thai: ????? (gáo)

Translations

Verb

gout (third-person singular simple present gouts, present participle gouting, simple past and past participle gouted)

1. (intransitive) To spurt.
   • 2001, Stephen King, Peter Straub, Black House

     Dark blood gouts from the creature's brisket.

References

Etymology 2

French goût

Noun

gout (plural gouts)

1. (obsolete) taste; relish
   • 1870, The Cook and Housewife's Manual (5th edition)

     A modern refinement is to put laver in the dripping-pan, which, in basting, imparts a high gout: or a large saddle may be served over a pound and a half of laver, stewed in brown sauce with catsup […]

French

Noun

gout m (plural gouts)

1. Post-1990 spelling of goût.

Further reading

• “gout” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch golt, from Proto-Germanic *gulþ?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?out/

Noun

gout n (stem goud-)

1. gold

Alternative forms

• golt (Rhinelandic, Limburgish)

Descendants

• Dutch: goud
  • Afrikaans: goud
  • ? Sranan Tongo: gowtu
• Limburgish: góldj

Further reading

• “gout”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “gout”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN