bubukle

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noun

A red pimple.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounbubukle (plural bubukles)

plural bubukles

  1. nonce wordobsoleteA red pimple.

    Probably it was less painful to have white whelks than red carbuncles and bubukles.

    1951, Ivor John Carnegie Brown, I Break My Word, page 30
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    His face is all bubukles, and whelks, and knobs, and flames o' fire; and his lips blows at his nose, and it is like a coal of fire, sometimes plue and sometimes red; but his nose is executed, and his fire's out.

    1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

    His moon face wore the perpetual smile of a simpleton and was headlighted by a bubukle nose. The facial blotch was not congenital but was from mustard gas in '17.

    1948, Andrew Geer, The Sea Chase, page 8

Origin

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