BOIL (swelling)
ADJECTIVES
1849 ► FURUNCULAR pert. to furuncles or boils
1861 ► FURUNCULOUS pert. to furuncles or boils
NOUNS
1000 ► DOT the head of a boil → Eng. dial.
1340 ► KYLE a boil; a sore, an ulcer → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1400 ► BEAL a boil; a pustule; an abscess → obs. exc. Eng. & Amer. dial.
1400 ► PUSH a pustule, a pimple, a boil → obs.
1543 ► FRONCLE a boil or furuncle → obs.
1555 ► BURBLE a boil; a pimple → obs.
1579 ► QUAT → QUOT a small boil; a pimple or pustule; a stye → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1605 ► BEALING a boil, an abscess → obs. exc. Eng. & Amer. dial.
1676 ► FURUNCLE a boil or inflammatory tumour
1746 ► ALLERNBATCH a boil, a carbuncle; an old sore → Eng. dial.
1790 ► ALLER a boil, a carbuncle → Eng. dial.
1790 ► BLAID a little boil → Eng. dial. obs.
1866 ► NISTIE-COCK a small suppurating boil or pimple → Sc. obs.
1898 ► CAT-BOIL a small boil or festered pimple → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
20C.. ► CAN OF OIL a boil → rhyming sl.
1902 ► PET a boil, a pimple, a mole, or a wart → Amer. dial.
1905 ► NESSCOCK a small boil or pimple → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► NESSCOCKLE a small boil or pimple → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► QUILT a boil; a small blister; a pimple → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► TANNER the root of a boil, corn, etc. → Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1911 ► BLUSH a boil; a blister → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 ► BLUSHIN → BLUSHION a boil or blister on hands or feet; a pustule full of matter → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 ► BOGAN → BOGGAN a boil → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 ► BOLGAN a swelling that becomes a boil or pimple → Sc. (Bk.)
1932 ► CONAN (DOYLE) a boil → UK rhyming sl.
1942 ► BEEAL a boil; an abscess, esp. in the ear → Amer. dial.
1960 ► BOILER a boil; a furuncle → Amer. dial.
1960 ► BUMP a boil → Amer. dial.
1966 ► MOMMA the head of a boil → Amer. dial.
1966 ► RAISING a boil, an abscess, or other swelling → Amer. dial.
1998 ► MRS DOYLE a boil → UK rhyming sl.
1999 ► VOLCANOES boils or pimples → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
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