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goutily

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Etymology

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From gouty +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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goutily (comparative more goutily, superlative most goutily)

  1. In a gouty manner; as if affected with gout.
    He hobbled goutily away.
    • 1901, Louis Couperus, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, Small Souls, Chapter XXII:
      the iron pins of the flagstaff creaked goutily and painfully; the flagstaffs themselves bent as though they were the masts of a fleet of houses moored in a roadstead of bricks.

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