| 单词 | puking fever |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspuking fever puking fever n. U.S. (now historical) = milk sickness n. at milk n.1 and adj. Compounds 3a. ΚΠ 1849 J. K. Mitchell On Cryptogamous Origin Malarious & Epidemic Fevers iii. 66 There is, in the wild regions of our own western country, a disease called the milk-sickness, the trembles,..the puking fever. 1905 H. A. Hare Text-bk. Pract. Med. 355 When man is affected it is given this name [sc. milk sickness] and the additional one of ‘puking fever’. 1961 J. A. Caruso Great Lakes Frontier xi. 331 A disease that attacked humans as well as animals was what the pioneers called ‘milk sick’,..‘the slows’ or ‘the puking fever’. 2000 R. A. Carter Buffalo Bill Cody iii. 36 More emigrants fell victim to cholera, ‘milk sickness’, or the ‘puking fever’ than to Indian arrows. < as lemmas |
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