Gouty-Handed Meaning

(obsolete, idiomatic) Slow to reward.

Example: Suffering from gout in the hands.
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."

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