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单词 chancre
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chancren.

Brit. /ˈʃaŋkə/, U.S. /ˈkæŋkər/, /ˈʃæŋkər/
Forms:

α. 1500s– shanker, 1600s schanker, 1700s shancre, 1700s shankre; also Scottish pre-1700 schanker.

β. 1600s– chancre, 1700s chanker; also Scottish pre-1700 chanker.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French chancre.
Etymology: < Middle French, French chancre erosion or ulceration of the skin or mucous membrane due to infectious disease, especially venereal disease (1566 with reference to venereal disease), kind of bacterial disease affecting tobacco (1903 in the title translated in quot. 1903 at sense 2), spec. senses of chancre canker n. Compare earlier cancer n., canker n.With soft chancre at sense 1 compare French chancre mou (1858 or earlier). With hard chancre at sense 1 compare French chancre induré (1860 or earlier).
1. The typical lesion (of the skin or a mucous membrane) found in primary syphilis, which is solitary, painless, round or oval, and firm, with central ulceration. Also: any of various lesions thought to resemble this, esp. (now in full soft chancre) a chancroid.The syphilitic chancre is also called a hard chancre or Hunterian chancre.In quot. 1969 figurative.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > abscess > ulcer > of venereal disease
dosser1547
buttons of Naples1575
chancrea1585
pock-sore1625
chank1686
pockroyal1694
a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart (Tullibardine) ii. 48 in Poems (2000) I. 145 Þe scheippisch, the schanker [1621 chanker].
1593 J. Eliot Ortho-epia Gallica xvi. 113 The most expert [Phisicians] of the world in vrines, for they haue brought me out of an ill weeke into an euill yeare, and haue changed me a French Shanker into a double Neapolitan Cancro.
1657 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1751) 50 When..They first brought Shankers ov'r the alps.
1660 J. Howell Θηρολογια 78 When one pisseth drop by drop, Lues Venerea, St. Anthony's Fire, the Chancre, and Botches, &c.
1714 D. Turner De Morbis Cutaneis ii. vi. 206 But if the Illness arise from some latent Chancre, you are to purge off the pocky Virus with some brisk Cathartick.
1737 J. Armstrong Synopsis Hist. & Cure Venereal Dis. 169 The following is an admirable Ointment for removing ulcerous Pustules, Fistulas, and Chankers.
1772 T. Bridges Burlesque Transl. Homer (rev. ed.) xi. 491 Ajax gave him two such spankers, They smarted worse than nodes and shankers.
1829 ‘J. Hinds’ Vet. Surg. (ed. 2) ii. iii. 367 Certain parts of the body [of a horse] are likewise covered with lumps and chancres, which latter characterize the farcy glanders.
1872 J. S. Cohen Dis. Throat 113 Chancres about the lips, tongue, and hard palate, produced by actual contact.
1881 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon (at cited word) According to most modern authorities, this soft chancre or local contagious ulcer, as it is called, is not a syphilitic, although a venereal, disease, the Hunterian or hard chancre being the local manifestation of syphilis.
1928 C. S. Whitehead & C. A. Hoff Ethical Sex Relations (new ed.) i. viii. 307 Chancroid is commonly known as ‘soft chancre’, being a purely local sore, while ‘hard chancre’ is the term applied to the true initial sore or chancre of syphilis.
1937 E. Pound Fifth Decad Cantos I. 49 Talleyrand stank with shanker And hell pissed up Metternich.
1969 H. S. Thompson Let. 19 Nov. in Fear & Loathing in Amer. (2000) 218 The old, Hearst-style journalists had a privileged relationship with power—and they paid for that privilege by keeping a lot of warts and chancres off the public record.
1990 Internat. H & E Monthly 92 No. 2. 6/1 ‘Sex’ was something picked up sneakily in the school lavatories with stories of the pox, ‘shankers’ and other equally revolting things.
2002 W. Kennedy Roscoe 57 Roy came to Roscoe's house to tell him that he had a chancre, a gift from the eighteen-year-old girl he'd been boffing, with modifiers, four times a week.
2. A bacterial disease affecting tobacco, apparently caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. rare.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with crop or food plants > various diseases
red rot1798
bunt1800
heart rot1808
yellow rust1808
pepperbrand1842
black spot1847
take-all1865
anthracnose1877
coffee-leaf disease1877
white rot1879
bladder-brand1883
basal rot1896
whitehead1898
black root rot1901
chancre1903
black pod1904
bud-rot1906
frog-eye1906
wildfire1918
pasmo1926
blind-seed disease1939
sharp eyespot1943
1903 Nature 17 Sept. 492/2 On a bacterial disease of tobacco, ‘chancre’ or ‘anthracnose’, by M. G. Delacroix.

Compounds

chancre mechanic n. U.S. Military slang a doctor or other medical practitioner, esp. one who treats venereal disease.
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1945 Amer. Speech 20 147/2 Chancre mechanic, medic.
1958 B. Plagemann Steel Cocoon iii. 43 I said we had to handle chancre mechanics like you with kid gloves during wartime because you could lower the boom on any of us.
2004 N. G. Carey Tender Duty xi. 106 I heard it from Doc—a chancre-mechanic first who'd done a couple tours with the Marines in Haiti.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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