adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Suffering from gout in the hands.
2. 2
   Slow to reward. idiomatic, obsolete

   "In matters of disbursement he was (to use an eighteenth century idiom) “monstrous gouty-handed.""

Example

More examples

"In matters of disbursement he was (to use an eighteenth century idiom) “monstrous gouty-handed.""

Etymology

From gouty + handed.

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