gound

English

Alternative forms

gund (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English gounde, gownde, from Old English gund (“matter, pus, poison”), from Proto-West Germanic *gund, from Proto-Germanic *gundaz (“sore, boil”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰendʰ- (“ulcer, sore, abscess, boil”). Cognate with Old High German gunt (“purulent matter”), dialectal Norwegian gund (“the scab of an ulcer”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɡaʊnd/
Rhymes: -aʊnd
Homophone: gowned

Noun

gound (uncountable)

(UK dialectal) Mucus produced by the eyes during sleep.
- 2002, Peter Novobatzky, Ammon Shea, Depraved and Insulting English:
  Typical terms invented to fill this vacuum include sleepies, eye-snot, and bed-boogers. The correct word, however, is gound. "Collin was never one to dillydally in the morning: by the time he had rubbed the gound out of his eyes he was usually on his third Manhattan."
- 2004, Bart King, Chris Sabatino, The Big Book of Boy Stuff:
  Your eyes get dried mucus in them while you sleep. The stuff is sometimes called bed-boogers or eye-snot, but to be accurate, it is "gound".
- 2016, Darla Duhaime, Gross Body Stuff, page 16:
  Your eyes have their own goo, too. You know that crud in the corners of your eyes when you first wake up? It's a type of rheum called gound. When you're awake, you blink away the gound.
- 2017, Carol Ann Rinzler, Spare Parts: In Praise of Your Appendix and Other Unappreciated Organs:
  While you sleep, however, your rheum bundles detritus such as dust, blood cells, skin cells, and mucus into gound, the gummy yellow-y stuff sometimes known as “sleep” […]
(UK dialectal) Gummy matter in sore eyes.

Synonyms

See synonyms at sleep.

Derived terms

goundy

Translations

mucus produced by the eyes during sleep — see sleep#English: crusty

References

gound in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
Wright, Joseph (1900) The English Dialect Dictionary‎, volume 2, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 692

Anagrams

Duong, undog, ungod

单词	gound
释义	gound English Alternative forms gund (dialectal) Etymology From Middle English gounde, gownde, from Old English gund (“matter, pus, poison”), from Proto-West Germanic gund, from Proto-Germanic gundaz (“sore, boil”), from Proto-Indo-European gʰendʰ- (“ulcer, sore, abscess, boil”). Cognate with Old High German gunt* (“purulent matter”), dialectal Norwegian gund (“the scab of an ulcer”). Pronunciation IPA^(key): /ˈɡaʊnd/ Rhymes: -aʊnd Homophone: gowned Noun gound (uncountable) (UK dialectal) Mucus produced by the eyes during sleep. 2002, Peter Novobatzky, Ammon Shea, Depraved and Insulting English: Typical terms invented to fill this vacuum include sleepies, eye-snot, and bed-boogers. The correct word, however, is gound. "Collin was never one to dillydally in the morning: by the time he had rubbed the gound out of his eyes he was usually on his third Manhattan." 2004, Bart King, Chris Sabatino, The Big Book of Boy Stuff: Your eyes get dried mucus in them while you sleep. The stuff is sometimes called bed-boogers or eye-snot, but to be accurate, it is "gound". 2016, Darla Duhaime, Gross Body Stuff, page 16: Your eyes have their own goo, too. You know that crud in the corners of your eyes when you first wake up? It's a type of rheum called gound. When you're awake, you blink away the gound. 2017, Carol Ann Rinzler, Spare Parts: In Praise of Your Appendix and Other Unappreciated Organs: While you sleep, however, your rheum bundles detritus such as dust, blood cells, skin cells, and mucus into gound, the gummy yellow-y stuff sometimes known as “sleep” […] (UK dialectal) Gummy matter in sore eyes. Synonyms See synonyms at sleep. Derived terms goundy Translations mucus produced by the eyes during sleep — see sleep#English: crusty References gound in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911 Wright, Joseph (1900) The English Dialect Dictionary‎, volume 2, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 692 Anagrams Duong, undog, ungod
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