Meanings
nounprickly heat (uncountable)
- uncountablemiliaria
My poor boy, how the prickly heat has marked your forehead! Have you ever tried sulphate of copper in water?
1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Hill of Illusion”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 82Synonyms: heat rash, sweat rash
Synonyms & antonyms
nounmiliaria
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nounobstruction of the sweat ducts during high heat and humidity
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Origin
1730-40, Americanism.
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