Gownd vs Gound - What's the difference?
gownd | gound |
Mucus produced by the eyes during sleep.
*2002 , Peter Novobatzky, Ammon Shea, Depraved and Insulting English :
*2004 , Bart King, Chris Sabatino, The Big Book of Boy Stuff :
*2009 , Ammon Shea, Reading the OED :
Gummy matter in sore eyes.
As an adjective gownd
is .As a noun gound is
mucus produced by the eyes during sleep.gound
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* (l) (dialectal)Noun
(en noun)- 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."
- 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 ".
- 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.