Dictionary entry

Goitrous

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Goi″trous (?), a. [F. goîtreux, L. gutturosus. See Goiter.] Pertaining to the goiter; affected with the goiter; of the nature of goiter or bronchocele.

Let me not be understood as insinuating that the inhabitants in general are either goitrous or idiots. W. Coxe.