different between gound vs goundy
gound
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)
- (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".
- 2002, Peter Novobatzky, Ammon Shea, Depraved and Insulting English:
- (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
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goundy
English
Alternative forms
- gundy, gunny
Etymology
From Middle English goundi, goundy, gundy, from Old English gundi? (“goundy, mattery”), equivalent to gound +? -y. More at gound.
Adjective
goundy (comparative goundier or more goundy, superlative goundiest or most goundy)
- (Britain dialectal) Gummy or mattery, as in sore eyes.
Anagrams
- gyudon
Middle English
Adjective
goundy
- Alternative form of goundi
goundy From the web:
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