Meanings
adjectivefuruncular (comparative more furuncular, superlative most furuncular)
comparative more furuncular · superlative most furuncular
- rarePertaining to furuncles or boils.
He remembered the inspector's pipe studded with Bohemian gems (in harmony with its owner's furuncular nose) and also the habit Armande had of exchanging ribald comments in Swiss-German with the old fellow while he was examining the rubbish under a cracked seat.
1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 88
Origin
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