chancredadj.
/ˈʃaŋkəd/, U.S. /ˈkæŋkərd/, /ˈʃæŋkərd/ Affected with a chancre; syphilitic.
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1680 Earl of Rochester et al. Poems 130 Vile Sot! who clapt with Poetry art sick, And void'st Corruption, like a Shanker'd Prick.
1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) V. 217 Shanker'd, colliflower'd..Martyrs and Confessors of Venus.
1796 W. Buchan Observ. Prevention & Cure Venereal Dis. 82 This dreadful malady may in most cases be prevented by proper medicines, duly persisted in, during, what I call, the chancred state.
1829 ‘J. Hinds’ Vet. Surg. (ed. 2) ii. iii. 367 The tumefied glands and the cartilage of the nose become chancred.
1939 D. Thomas Let. ?May (1987) 374 But no beer-talk, that makes one sicker: Bellocy Bill & Squire John, Bless the bed that I piss on; Novelists neuter, Catholics chancred.
2000 T. P. Lowry & J. D. Welsh Tarnished Scalpels xviii. 84 He was charged with handling the gonorrheal and chancred penis of Private Steward.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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