different between mucus vs gound

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin m?cus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mju?k?s/
• Rhymes: -u?k?s
• Hyphenation: mu?cus
• Homophone: mucous

Noun

mucus (usually uncountable, plural mucuses or muci)

1. (physiology) A slippery secretion from the lining of the mucous membranes.

Usage notes

Do not confuse mucous (adjective) with mucus (noun).

Hyponyms

• phlegm
• rheum

Derived terms

Related terms

• mucosa
• mucositis

Translations

See also

• snot

Anagrams

• CUSUM

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin m?cus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my.kys/

Noun

mucus m (uncountable)

1. (physiology) mucus

Further reading

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

Latin

Alternative forms

• muccus

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *moukos, from Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (“slimy, slippery”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ????? (múk?s, “mushroom”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?mu?.kus/, [?mu?k?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?mu.kus/, [?mu?kus]

Noun

m?cus m (genitive m?c?); second declension

1. mucus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• m?c?d?
• muce?
• m?cidus
• m?c?sus
• m?culentus

Related terms

• m?c?

Descendants

References

• mucus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mucus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mucus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• mucus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin mucus. Doublet of muc.

Noun

mucus n (uncountable)

1. mucus

Declension

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