Meaning of gound | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Mucus produced by the eyes during sleep.
   UK, dialectal, uncountable
2. Gummy matter in sore eyes.
   UK, dialectal, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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."”

“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".”

“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.”

“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⟳” […]”

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