gout

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A painful disease that swells the joints, especially the big toe, caused by too much uric acid in the body.

   Years of rich food and wine left him suffering from gout.

2. 2
   noun

   A drop or splash of liquid, especially blood.

   Dark gouts of blood marked the trail.

From Middle English goute, from Old French gote, gute, from Latin gutta (“drop”). Compare Spanish gota (“drop, droplet”). 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".

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