What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Rheumy vs Rheum - What's the difference?

rheumy | rheum |

Rheumy is a derived term of rheum.


As a adjective rheumy

is of, relating to, or producing rheum from the mucous membranes; watery.

As a noun rheum is

(uncountable) watery or thin discharge of serum or mucus, especially from the eyes or nose, formerly thought to cause disease.

rheumy

English

Adjective

(head)
  • of, relating to, or producing rheum from the mucous membranes; watery

    • rheum

    English

    (wikipedia rheum)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Watery or thin discharge of serum or mucus, especially from the eyes or nose, formerly thought to cause disease.
  • * 1916 , (James Joyce), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , Macmillan Press Ltd, 102
    • He wore about his shoulders a heavy cloak; his pale face was drawn and his voice broken with rheum .
  • Illness or disease thought to be caused by such secretions; a cold, catarrh; rheumatism.
  • *, II.8:
    • hehad all his faculties free and easie, onely a rheume excepted that fell into his stomacke.
  • (poetic) Tears.

    • Hyponyms

    * (dried rheum around eyes) crusty (slang), gound (UK dialectal), sleep, sleepy dust (informal)

    Derived terms

    * rheumatic * rheumatism * rheumy