Gound
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈɡaʊ̯nd/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Gound is a noun meaning Mucus produced by the eyes during sleep.
Meaning
Mucus produced by the eyes during sleep.
More Meanings
- Gummy matter in sore eyes.
Example Sentences
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".
While you sleep, however, your rheum bundles detritus such as dust, blood cells, skin cells, and mucus into gound, the gummy yellow-y stuff sometimes known as “sleep” […]
Your eyes have their own goo, too. You know that crud in the corners of your eyes when you first wake up? It's a type of rheum called gound. When you're awake, you blink away the gound.
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."
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sleepy, gobshell, snot, bogie, phlegm, booger.
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