Gound
/ɡaʊnd/noun
A Scots and dialectal word for a sticky discharge or matter, especially from the eyes.
Did you know?Gound descends from the Old English word gund, meaning “pus” or “matter,” a root that may also lie behind the modern word “gunge.”
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
Germanic
*gundō
“Pus, festering matter; a reconstructed ancestral form”
Old English
Old English
gund
“Pus, matter, or a diseased discharge”
Middle English
Middle English
gounde
“Pus or sticky bodily matter”
Scots
Scots
gound
“Discharge from the eyes or other bodily matter”
Modern dialect English
English
gound
“A sticky discharge, especially eye matter”