gouty-handed

English

Etymology

gouty +‎ handed

Adjective

gouty-handed (comparative more gouty-handed, superlative most gouty-handed)

  1. Suffering from gout in the hands.
  2. (obsolete, idiomatic) Slow to reward.
    • 1919, The American Architect - Volume 116, Part 2, page 791:
      In matters of disbursement he was (to use an eighteenth century idiom) “monstrous gouty-handed."
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