- french pox
- noun
see french plague
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Older Use (sometimes offensive).syphilis.[1495-1505]* * *
French pox noun (obsolete)Syphilis• • •Main Entry: ↑French
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French pox — /frɛntʃ ˈpɒks/ (say french poks) noun → syphilis …
French pox — Older Use (sometimes offensive). syphilis. [1495 1505] * * * … Universalium
French pox — noun syphilis … Wiktionary
French — bull (small breed of dog); French chalk (tailor’s talc); French curve (drafting instrument); French heel (high curved heel); French polish (alcohol + shellac); French pox (syphilis); French roll (women’s coiffure); French roof (mansard style);… … Eponyms, nicknames, and geographical games
pox — /pɒks / (say poks) noun 1. a disease characterised by multiple skin pustules, as smallpox. 2. Also, French pox, great pox. → syphilis. 3. Colloquial any venereal disease. –phrase 4. a pox on …, Archaic …
pox — n 1.Pathology. smallpox, Pathol. variola; chicken pox, Pathol. varicella. 2.Informal. venereal disease, VD, social disease, Sl. Cupid s itch; syphilis, Inf. syph, French pox … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
french plague — noun or french pox Usage: usually capitalized F obsolete : syphilis … Useful english dictionary
pox — Synonyms and related words: French disease, Spanish pox, VD, acquired syphilis, balanitis gangrenosa, cerebral tabes, chancre, chancroid, clap, claps, climatic bubo, congenital syphilis, constitutional syphilis, dose, dose of clap, fifth venereal … Moby Thesaurus
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party — … Wikipedia
Horn pox — Horn Horn (h[^o]rn), n. [AS. horn; akin to D. horen, hoorn, G., Icel., Sw., & Dan. horn, Goth. ha[ u]rn, W., Gael., & Ir. corn, L. cornu, Gr. ke ras, and perh. also to E. cheer, cranium, cerebral; cf. Skr. [,c]iras head. Cf. {Carat}, {Corn} on… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
