单词 | crinkums |
释义 | † crinkumsn. slang. Obsolete. Venereal disease, esp. syphilis. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > venereal disease > [noun] bone acheOE burning1382 crinkums1618 bone ague1659 crankum1661 venereal1843 jack1899 Jack-in-the-box1899 V.D.1920 a certain disease1927 social disease1978 1618 W. Hornby Scourge Drunkennes sig. B3 Some will haue his nose most rich bespred, With Pearles and Crinkoms mixt with crimson red. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. xxi. 99 But the way to make them new men, was to get 'em to cohabit with a new-cast Female; for thus they caught that fifth kind of Crinckams, which some call Pellade..that makes them cast off their old Hair and Skin. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Crinkums, the French Pox. 1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth I. 147 The Old Queen too has got the Crincums. 1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Crinkums, the foul or venereal disease. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1618 |
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