youstern.
northern dialect.
Fetid discharge from a wound; pus, sanies.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > pus or matter
wursomeOE
yousterc725
warec1175
quittorc1300
corrumpciona1340
humour1340
atter1398
mattera1400
pus?a1425
filthiness1525
corruption1526
filth1561
gear1562
sanies1562
baggage1576
purulence1598
suppuration1601
lye1615
congestion1634
colluvies1651
collution1657
colloid1849
purulage1898
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] > discharge of putrid matter
yousterc725
screevinga1400
gotour14..
mattering?c1450
gleet1535
ichor1651
discharge1678
gleeting1684
pyorrhoea1787
lymph1800
c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) S 709 Supuratio, gelostr.
a1100 Aldhelm Glosses i. 3585 in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses (1900) 95/2 Tabo, .i. sanie, wyrmse, geolstre.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. ix. 72 The ȝoustir tharfra chirtand and blak blud.
Derivatives
youster v. to fester.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > suppurate [verb (intransitive)]
whealc1000
rank?a1300
ranklec1330
festera1400
putrefya1400
quittera1400
suppure?a1425
to come to a head1566
undercot1591
suppurate1615
youster1691
digest1722
maturate1726
1691 J. Ray N. Country Words Yowster [printed Yowfter], to fester.
youstered adj. (see quot. 1894).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > swelling > [adjective]
swollenc1325
bolnedc1380
botchya1398
tumid?1541
tumefied1597
tumefacted1598
proud1607
tumoured1635
hobbeda1722
swelled1733
all of a lump1738
jogged1746
nodular1872
youstered1894
micronodular1960
macronodular1967
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Youstered, puffed or swollen in the cellular membranes of the skin.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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