单词 | pock-rotten |
释义 | > as lemmaspock-rotten pock-rotten adj. (also pocks-rotten) now rare in a poor physical condition owing to the effects of syphilis; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > venereal disease > [adjective] > syphilis > infected with pockyc1350 French-sick1605 Frenchified1607 pock-rotten1616 poxed1678 Gallican1694 syphilitic1787 pox-fouleda1915 1616 W. Cornwallis Essayes Certaine Paradoxes sig. F You neuer see fat panches, and plumpt cheekes, and idle fellowes euer admitted into..the Hospitall and Lazer-house of the Pock-rotten aduenturers. 1682 in New-Eng. Historical & Geneal. Reg. (1898) LII. 27 A tall thin-faced fellow pocks rotten. 1988 C. D. Eby Road to Armageddon ii. 12 In some English circles there was a certain satisfaction in learning that the military legacy of their hereditary enemy was nothing more than a pock-rotten myth. < as lemmas |
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