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Gound vs Goundy - What's the difference?

gound | goundy |

In uk|_|dialectal|lang=en terms the difference between gound and goundy

is that gound is gummy matter in sore eyes while goundy is gummy or mattery, as in sore eyes.

As a noun gound

is mucus produced by the eyes during sleep.

As an adjective goundy is

gummy or mattery, as in sore eyes.

gound

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (dialectal)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • Gummy matter in sore eyes.

    • Synonyms

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

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    References

    * * Wright, The English dialect dictionary , Gound.

    Anagrams

    *

    goundy

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Gummy or mattery, as in sore eyes.