Gound
Alternative forms
- gund dialectal
Origin
From Middle English gound, gownde, from Old English gund ("matter, pus, poison"), from Proto-Germanic *gundaz ("sore, boil"), from Proto-Indo-European *gÊ°endÊ°- ("ulcer, sore, abscess, boil"). Cognate with Old High German gunt ("purulent matter"), Norwegian dialectal gund ("the scab of an ulcer").
Full definition of gound
Noun
gound
(plural gounds)- (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".
- 2009, Ammon Shea, Reading the OED:The gunk that collects in the corners of the eyes. Gound is the perfect example of a word that is practically useless, and yet still nice to know.
- (UK dialectal) Gummy matter in sore eyes.