English

Alternative forms

• gund (dialectal)

Noun

gound ‎(uncountable)

1. (Britain 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".

   • 2009, Ammon Shea, Reading the OED:

     The gunk that collects in the corners of the eyes. Gound is the perfect example of a word that is practically useless, and yet still nice to know.

2. (Britain dialectal) Gummy matter in sore eyes.

Synonyms

• bed booger(s)
• eye booger(s)
• eye-snot
• sleep
• sleepy dust
• rheum

Derived terms

• goundy

Translations

References

• gound in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• Wright, Joseph (1900) The English Dialect Dictionary, volume 2, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 692

Anagrams

• ungod