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Definition of gouty : 1. Boggy; as, gouty land.
2. Diseased with, or subject to, the gout; as, a gouty person; a gouty joint.
3. Pertaining to the gout.
4. Swollen, as if from gout.

Synonyms:

ill, sick

Usage examples:

• The Romans having sent three ambassadors to Bithynia, of whom one was gouty, another had his skull trepanned, and the other seemed little better than a fool; Cato, laughing, gave out, that the Romans had sent an embassy, which had neither feet, head, nor heart. - "Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans", Clough, Arthur Hugh.
• This completed the list of her admirers, if we except a gouty old man, who praised her dancing, and would perhaps have called her beautiful, but for his better half, who could see nothing agreeable or pleasing in the dashing belle. - "Dora Deane", Mary J. Holmes.
• The views inland up the rugged yellow crags, covered with verdure and studded with the quaint gouty trees, are weird and extraordinary, and below at our feet the waves dashed up in clouds of white spray. - "Southern Arabia", Theodore Bent Mabel Bent.