单词 | buboed |
释义 | > as lemmasˈbuboed ˈbuboed adj. (and n.) affected with buboes; (also as n., with the) people affected with buboes.In quot. 2004 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [adjective] > abscess > affected with impostumedc1400 impostumated1576 impostumate1601 abscessed1742 buboed1828 1828 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 30 89 ‘They called us,’ says he, ‘infected, carbuncled, bubo-ed, pestified fellows.’ 1964 Amer. Hist. Rev. 69 1167 An appalling venereal rate..which made the doctor, himself repeatedly buboed, one of his own best patients. 2002 A. A. Gill AA Gill is away 58 Here are the legless, armless, eyeless and toothless; the polio-crippled, the mine-maimed, the buboed and leprous. 2004 I. Sinclair Dining on Stones i. 121 Acid rain, road grit and all-enveloping low-grade pollution had collaborated with the anonymous artist on an expressionist masterpiece..: buboed, leprous, raw. < as lemmas |
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