α. 1500s– shanker, 1600s schanker, 1700s shancre, 1700s shankre; also Scottish pre-1700 schanker.
β. 1600s– chancre, 1700s chanker; also Scottish pre-1700 chanker.
单词 | chancre |
释义 | chancren.α. 1500s– shanker, 1600s schanker, 1700s shancre, 1700s shankre; also Scottish pre-1700 schanker. β. 1600s– chancre, 1700s chanker; also Scottish pre-1700 chanker. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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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