Goutily

Part of speech: adverb

Definitions

1. In a way that relates to or resembles the condition of gout affecting joints
2. Performing actions or showing signs connected with the symptoms or effects of gout
3. Done in a style or manner characteristic of gout, involving inflammation or pain

Etymology: "Goutily" is simply "gouty" with the adverbial ending "-ly" attached, so it means "in a gouty manner" or, as the dictionary gives it, "with painful swelling." The adjective "gouty" is built from "gout," the name of the disease in which uric acid crystals collect in the joints, most often the big toe, causing sudden, severe swelling and pain. The "-ly" suffix is one of English's most productive adverb-makers, formed from the Old English "-lic," which itself gave us the adjective ending in "lovely" and "likely." Attaching it to an adjective like "gouty" turns a description of a condition into a description of how something happens or looks. Because "gouty" is itself a plain adjective formed from "gout," the word has no hidden history of its own: it is a transparent chain of a disease name, an adjective ending, and an adverb ending.