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cocobay
Also cocoby, etc.
[ad. Twi kokobé.]
A form of leprosy once prevalent in the West Indies.
1788H. M'Neill Treatm. Negroes, Jamaica 35 Some of these disorders are not only dreadful but often incurable. These are the Yaws, [etc.];..the Bone-ache, and the Cocaby. 1801T. Dancer Med. Assistant ix. 230 Leprosy and Coco-Bay or Joint Evil. These seem to be only varieties of the same disease; viz. the Elephantiasis or Lepra Arabum. 1807R. Renny Hist. Jamaica 205 The diseases which peculiarly affect them [sc. Negroes]..are the yaws, the cacabay, or leprosy, dirt-eating, and the jaw-fall. a1818M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. Ind. (1834) 144 Afflicted with the cocoa-bay, one of the most horrible of negro diseases. 1873Lett. from Jamaica ii. 26 One wretched creature, suffering from that particular form of the disease which goes by the African name of ‘coco-bay’, asked us for an alms. 1961F. G. Cassidy Jamaica Talk vii. 131 A type of leprosy with an African name is the cocobay. |