gound
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɡaʊnd/
gound (uncountable)
- (UK dialectal) 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".
- 2002, Peter Novobatzky, Ammon Shea, Depraved and Insulting English:
- (UK dialectal) Gummy matter in sore eyes.
- see sleep
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