Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A pimple: a word of uncertain form and origin, found only in the following passage, where it is put into the mouth of a Welshman.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare A red pimple.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete, nonce word A red pimple.

Etymologies

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Perhaps related to bubo and/or carbuncle.

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  • "His face is all bubukles and whelks, and knobs, and flames o' fire." -- Shakespeare, Henry V, iii, 6, 94-5.

    June 22, 2010

  • One... Barrrdolph.

    June 22, 2010