barn gun
noun
ˈbärnən
dialectal, England
: a skin eruption
specifically : shingles
Word History
Etymology
English dialect barn (alteration of burn) + dialect gun, gund scab, from Old English gund- matter, pus; akin to Old High German gunt pus, Norwegian gund dandruff, scab, Gothic, cancerous tumor, and probably to Greek kanthylē swelling, tumor