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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
gound From the web:
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gourd
English
Etymology
From Middle English gourde, from Anglo-Norman gurde, gourde, from Latin cucurbita. Doublet of cucurbit.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???d/, /???d/
- (US) IPA(key): /???d/, /????d/
- Homophone: gored
Noun
gourd (plural gourds)
- Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae).
- A hard-shelled fruit from a plant in Lagenaria or Cucurbita.
- The dried and hardened shell of such fruit, made into a drinking vessel, bowl, spoon, or other objects designed for use or decoration.
- (obsolete) Any of the climbing or trailing plants from the family Cucurbitaceae, which includes watermelon, pumpkins, and cucumbers.
- (informal) loaded dice.
- (slang) Head.
- I got so stoned last night. I was out of my gourd.
Derived terms
- gourdful
- saw gourds
Translations
See also
- basket
- bucket
- calabash
- calabaza
- cucurbitaceous
References
Further reading
- American Gourd Society
Anagrams
- groud
French
Etymology
From Old French [Term?], from Latin gurdus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?u?/
Adjective
gourd (feminine singular gourde, masculine plural gourds, feminine plural gourdes)
- numb
- maladroit, gauche
Further reading
- “gourd” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman
Etymology
From Old French [Term?], from Latin gurdus.
Adjective
gourd m
- (Jersey) numb
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- what gourd is this
- what gourds are poisonous
- what gourds can you dry
- what gourd means
- what guard do i have
- what gourds are inedible
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