gout

Meaning

Noun

1. 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.
2. A spurt or splotch.
3. A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.

Verb

To spurt.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡaʊt/

Etymology

From Middle English goute, from Old French gote, gute, from Latin gutta (“drop”). Compare Spanish gota (“drop, droplet”). Doublet of goutte, gutta, and gutter.
The sense shift derived from humorism and "the notion of the 'dropping' of a morbid material from the blood in and around the joints".