different between gound vs gould

English

Alternative forms

• gund (dialectal)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?nd/
• Rhymes: -a?nd

Noun

gound (uncountable)

1. (Britain dialectal) Mucus produced by the eyes during sleep.
   • 2002, Peter Novobatzky, Ammon Shea, Depraved and Insulting English:

     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."

   • 2004, Bart King, Chris Sabatino, The Big Book of Boy Stuff:

     Your eyes get dried mucus in them while you sleep. The stuff is sometimes called bed-boogers or eye-snot, but to be accurate, it is "gound".
2. (Britain dialectal) Gummy matter in sore eyes.

Synonyms

• see sleep

Derived terms

• goundy

Translations

References

• gound in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Wright, Joseph (1900) The English Dialect Dictionary?^[1], volume 2, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 692

Anagrams

• Duong, undog, ungod

English

Adjective

gould (not comparable)

1. Obsolete form of gold.

Noun

gould (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of gold.
   • 1649, John Caley quoted in Archaeologia, Volume X., page #405:

     […] one other roome called the lower parler, this roome intended for hangings, part of the walls are wayn?cotted with oake, adorned with ?tarres and cro?s patees of gould, the feeling thereof is a quadrat arch, in the middle whereof hangs one piñacle perpendicular, garni?hed in every angle with coates of armes, well wrought and richly guilt, the floor is of deale boardes, a hand?ome chymny peece, in the midle whereof is a well wrought coate of arms?; […]