单词 | bubukle |
释义 | bubuklen. Now rare. A large pimple.In later use sometimes with allusion to Shakespeare: see quot. a1616. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > abscess > boil boila1000 kyle1340 botcha1387 anthraxa1398 bealc1400 carbuncle?a1425 froncle1543 knub1563 anthracosis?1587 nail1600 big1601 ouche1612 bubuklea1616 bolwaie1628 coal1665 furuncle1676 Natal sore1851 gurry sore1897 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. vi. 108 His face is all bubukles and whelkes. View more context for this quotation 1748 L. Pilkington Mem. II. 42 An old Man, with a most unprelatical Countenance, for it was full of Bubuckles, and Knobs, and Flames of Fire, came out, with my Letter in his Hand. 1869 Punch 5 June 236/2 It makes a cosmetic potion better than anything advertised, to remove tan, pimples, freckles, discolorations, bubukles, and whelks, and knobs, and flames of fire. 1986 Times 8 July 11/4 What is so repellent about the male neck? Grime, scrawn, hair, bubukles? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1616 |
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