goutとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国用法) IPA^(key): /ɡaʊt/
• Rhymes: -aʊt
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [ɡʌut]

名詞

gout (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 gouts)

1. (uncountable, pathology) An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints.

   Synonyms: crystalline arthritis, gouty arthritis, urarthritis

   Hypernym: arthritis

   • 2020 November 13, Ligaya Mishan, “Once the Disease of Gluttonous Aristocrats, Gout Is Now Tormenting the Masses”, in The New York Times‎^[1], ISSN 0362-4331:

     Once gout was confined largely to Western civilization (with some outliers, like the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan); now its ravages are global.

2. (usually followed by of) A spurt or splotch.
   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i], page 136:

     I see thee still, / And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood.

   • 1981, P. D. James, chapter 20, in Children of Men, page 137:

     [S]mall chunks of rubble and gouts of soot had fallen from the chimney, and were ground into the rug under his unwary feet.

   • 2002, Mercedes Lackey; Eric Flint; Dave Freer, The Shadow of the Lion‎^[2]:

     Another blow sent gouts of blood flying, along with gobbets of flesh.

3. (rare) A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.^[1]

派生語

• goutiness
• gout-ridden
• gouty
• pseudogout

関連する語

• gutter

派生した語

• Thai: เกาต์ (gáo)

動詞

gout (三人称単数 現在形 gouts, 現在分詞 gouting, 過去形および過去分詞形 gouted)

1. (intransitive) To spurt.
   • 2001, Stephen King, Peter Straub, Black House

     Dark blood gouts from the creature's brisket.

参照

語源 2

French goût

名詞

gout (複数形 gouts)

1. (obsolete) taste; relish
   • 1870, The Cook and Housewife's Manual (5th edition)

     A modern refinement is to put laver in the dripping-pan, which, in basting, imparts a high gout: or a large saddle may be served over a pound and a half of laver, stewed in brown sauce with catsup […]