Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gouty-handed

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.77 in modern English

Syllables: gouty-hand-ed
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Suffering from gout in the hands.

adj

Slow to reward.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"In matters of disbursement he was (to use an eighteenth century idiom) “monstrous gouty-handed.""

Etymology

From gouty + handed.

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more gouty-handed (comparative) most gouty-handed (superlative)

Questions

What does gouty-handed mean?: Suffering from gout in the hands.
Where does gouty-handed come from?: From gouty + handed.

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