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单词 scald head
释义

scald headn.

Forms: Also scald-head.
Etymology: scald adj.1
1. A person's head diseased with ringworm or some similar affection.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > ring-worm or favus > head
scald head1546
scald-pate1611
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. iii. sig. Giiv A scalde head is soone broken.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 53 Meane of stature he was, & euill proportioned: hauing euer a scald head.
a1756 E. Haywood New Present (1771) 247 An infallible Remedy for a Scald Head.
1826 T. Hood Irish Schoolmaster xix, in Whims & Oddities 128 The Pedagogue, with sudden drub, Smites his scald-head, that is already sore.
1882 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) Scaud-head, Scaut-head, a head disfigured with patches of scrofula.
in extended use.1808 M. T. Kemble Day after Wedding 12 I'll make you a toupee. I hate your scald-heads, all dragged up at the roots.
2. A popular term for tinea or other similar scalp affections.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > ring-worm or favus
achorOE
scalled-head1340
motha1398
tinea1398
serpigoc1400
ringworma1425
scald1561
tetterworm1622
surpeguea1632
serpentine1639
scald head1673
favus1706
honeycomb scall1817
dhobie itch1890
trichophytosis1890
scaly ringworm1898
whitehead1911
athlete's foot1928
1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 179 For a Scald-head. Take a Candle, and let it drop upon it as hot as you can, in so doing it will scale off.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique (at cited word) There are several sorts of Scald Heads, some resemble the Grains of Figs..; others are small bits of Flesh..and others are like Farinous Tetters.
a1836 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VII. 791/1 Porrigo is a generic term for an eruption of psydracious pustules, usually termed scald-head.
1871 G. H. Napheys Prevention & Cure Dis. iii. xiii. 1077 One of the forms of ‘scald head’.

Derivatives

scald-headed adj. having a ‘scald head’; also figurative.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [adjective] > ringworm or favus
scald-pated1611
serpedinous1616
serpiginous1676
scald-headed1802
favic1892
1802 C. Wilmot Irish Peer on Continent (1920) 102 Grim scaldheaded Mountains.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iii. vi. 130 Is Royalty grown a mere wooden Scarecrow; whereon thou, pert scaldheaded crow, mayest alight at pleasure, and peck?
1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics I. iii. iv. 103 Every humpbacked, one-eyed, scald~headed passenger had to pay a penny for each infirmity.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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