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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

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• hrif

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hrif (“guts, belly”). Compare Old English hrif (“stomach”).

Noun

href n

1. body
2. womb
3. belly