gouty-handed

English

Etymology

gouty +‎ handed

Adjective

gouty-handed (comparative more gouty-handed, superlative most gouty-handed)

1. Suffering from gout in the hands.
2. (obsolete, idiomatic) Slow to reward.
   • 1919, The American Architect - Volume 116, Part 2, page 791:

     In matters of disbursement he was (to use an eighteenth century idiom) “monstrous gouty-handed."