Gout is a painful swelling of the joints, especially the toe. An attack of gout, suffer from gout, gout in his foot.
It is caused by uric acid crystals forming in a joint, and the pain is famously severe — patients describe a bedsheet as unbearable. The old reputation as a rich man's disease came from its link with meat, seafood and alcohol. It is very treatable.
1noungoutA painful swelling of the joints caused by uric acid.
“His gout was so bad that he couldn't bear a sheet touching his big toe.”
gout is an illness.
Old French gote comes from Latin gutta, a drop — from a theory that the disease was caused by drops of humour falling into the joints.
Latin
gutta — drop
Old French
gote
Middle English
goute
English, today
gout
From Middle English goute, from Old French gote, gute, from Latin gutta (“drop”). Compare Spanish gota (“drop, droplet”). a doublet of goutte and gutta. The sense shift derived from humorism and "the notion of the 'dropping' of a morbid material from the blood in and around the joints".
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA