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

1. (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.
2. (UK dialectal) Gummy matter in sore eyes.

Synonyms

• bed booger(s)
• eye booger(s)
• eye-snot
• sleep
• sleepy dust

Derived terms

• goundy

Anagrams

• dgnou
• ungod