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Mound vs Gound - What's the difference?

mound | gound |

As nouns the difference between mound and gound

is that mound is a hand while gound is mucus produced by the eyes during sleep.

As a verb mound

is to fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to.

mound

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete, anatomy, measurement, figuratively) A hand.
  • (obsolete) A protection; restraint; curb.
  • (obsolete) A helmet.
  • (obsolete) Might; size.
  • An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart.
  • A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
  • (baseball) Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.
  • A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross.
  • (US, vulgar, slang) The mons veneris.

    • Synonyms

    * (part of regalia) globus cruciger, globe, orb

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to.
  • To force or pile into a mound or mounds.
    • He mounded up his mashed potatoes so they left more space on the plate for the meat.

    See also

    * (wikipedia "mound") *

    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.

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