DISEASE, DISEASED
ADJECTIVES
► ACRAZED diseased in body, affected with illness, indisposed; impaired → 1521 obs.
► AGAIT ► AGATE going about, prevalent; said of disease → 1848 Eng. dial.
► BRIEF prevalent, widespread; esp. said of a communicable disease → 1722 Amer. dial.
► COTHY diseased, sickly → 1825 Eng. dial.
► CRAZED broken down in health; diseased; infirm → 1555 obs.
► CRAZY indisposed, ailing; diseased, sickly, weakly; frail, infirm → 1576 obs.
► DANGEROUS infectious; said of disease or illness → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► EAGER acute, severe; said of diseases → 1544 obs.
► FERINE malignant; said of a disease → 1666
► FURIOUS of pain, disease, evil influence: raging, cruel → 1405 obs.
► HEARTY violent, severe; said of disease → a1639 obs.
► ILL-AFFECTED diseased, affected with illness or indisposition → 1604 obs.
► LAZAR affected with a loathsome disease, esp. leprosy; leprous → 1483
► LAZARLY diseased, lazar-like → 1612-15 obs.
► LUSTY strong, powerful; said of disease → 1692 obs.
► LUXURIANT abundantly prevalent; said of a disease → 1656 obs.
► MORBULENT full of diseases, sickly → 1656
► NEAT free from disease → 1615 obs.
► PANCRASTICAL good for all diseases, of the nature of a panacea → 1698 obs.
► TRUCULENT destructive, deadly; said of a disease → 1665 obs.
► VERNACULAR characteristic of or occurring in a particular country or district; endemic; said of diseases → 1666 obs.
► WALKING migratory; said of a disease → c1400 obs.
NOUNS
► ACCESS a coming on of disease or illness, esp. of sudden illness → c1325
► ACME the point of extreme violence of a disease or illness; the crisis → c1630 arch.
► ADLE disease, sickness → c1000 obs.
► AEIPATHY a chronic or unremitting disease → 1721 obs.
► AFFECTION disease → 1960 Amer. dial.
► AFRICAN GUFF-GUFF a non-existent disease suffered by soldiers → 1947 US sl.
► BADNESS disease, sickness, illness → 1885 Eng. dial.
► BARCOO ROT a festering skin disease → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► BIG CASINO a terminal or fatal disease, as cancer → 1930s US sl.
► BILLY GO NIMBLES an imaginary disease → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CABOOSE MICE an imaginary disease → 1950 Amer. dial.
► CAN’T-HELP-ITS an imaginary disease → 1966 Amer. dial.
► CHINESE ROT a disease of usually unspecified kind, esp. a venereal disease → 1940 Amer. sl., usually offensive
► CHOLERA MORABUS an imaginary disease → 1942 Amer. dial.
► CHRONICS an imaginary disease → 1967 Amer. dial.
► COLLY MOBBLES ► COLLY MORBUS an imaginary disease → 1942 Amer. dial.
► COOTIES an imaginary disease or infestation that could be transmitted by close contact, thus creating a stigma for the person who is said to have it → 1971 US sl.
► CREEPING-CRUD an unidentified disease → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► CRUD a non-specific disease or infection; an imaginary disease → 1932 US sl.
► DEATH-EVIL a mortal disease → c1330 obs.
► DERMATOPATHOPHOBIA fear of skin disease → 1991 (Bk.)
► DERMATOPHOBIA fear of skin disease → 1991 (Bk.)
► DERMATOSIOPHOBIA fear of skin disease → 1991 (Bk.)
► DIARRHOEA OF THE JAWBONE an imaginary disease involving constant talking → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► DIARRHOEA OF THE MOUTH an imaginary disease involving constant talking → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► DISHWATER DIARRHEA an imaginary disease afflicting reluctant dishwashers → 1969 Amer. dial.
► DREADED LURGY, THE a fictitious, highly infectious disease → 1947 sl., orig. Brit. military usage
► EIGHT-O’CLOCK FEVER an imaginary disease → 1967 Amer. dial.
► EPIDOOZICK an imaginary disease → 1965 Amer. dial.
► EPIZEEMA an imaginary disease → 1967 Amer. dial.
► EPIZOOTIC an imaginary disease → 1950 Amer. dial.
► EPIZOOTIS an imaginary disease → 1965 Amer. dial.
► EPIZOOTY an imaginary disease → 1965 Amer. dial.
► FANTATOLITES a minor disease; an imaginary disease → 1968 Amer. dial.
► FANTOD ► FANTODS a minor disease; an imaginary disease → 1839 Amer. dial.
► FEVER AND LURK the ‘disease’ of laziness; an imaginary disease → 1966 Amer. dial.
► FEVER DELUXE an imaginary disease → 1969 Amer. dial.
► FLOOZY, THE an imaginary disease → 1968 Amer. dial.
► FLU-FLUX an imaginary disease → 1970 Amer. dial.
► GAPOSIS a notional disease involving a gap of any kind → 1942 US sl.
► GONNYWOBBLES an imaginary disease → 1970 Amer. dial.
► GOOSE FEVER an imaginary disease → 1968 Amer. dial.
► GUNGE a tropical skin disease affecting the crotch area of a US soldier in Vietnam → 1977 US sl.
► GUNK, THE an imaginary disease → 1968 Amer. dial.
► HARM any contagious or epidemic disease, not distinguished by a specific name; a fever → 1825 Eng. dial.
► HEART-FEVER a disease, an illness → 1886 N. Ireland
► HEAT RASH a disease; some terrible retribution → 1969 US Air Force Academy cadets’ sl. (Bk.)
► HEPAZOOTIS an imaginary disease → 1965 Amer. dial.
► HIACAPOOKA an imaginary or indescribable disease → 1908 Amer. dial.
► HIACAPOOKUMS an imaginary or indescribable disease → 1908 Amer. dial.
► HICTAMUS an imaginary disease → 1950 Amer. dial.
► HIGH-JEETIS an imaginary disease → 1970 Amer. dial.
► HORRENDIOMA a notional disease → 1977 US sl.
► ILL disease, illness, pain; difficulty → 1813 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► IMAGINARIES an imaginary disease → 1966 Amer. jocular usage
► IMAGINATIONS an imaginary disease → 1966 Amer. jocular usage
► INWARD TROUBLE an internal disease or illness → 1787 Sc.
► JIMJAMS an imaginary disease → 1965 Amer. dial.
► JUGULATION the sudden arrest of a disease by a powerful remedy → 1887
► JUNGLE ROT a tropical skin disease → 1944 sl.
► LANGUOR disease, sickness, illness → a1300 obs.
► LAZARET a house for the reception of the diseased poor, esp. lepers; a hospital → 1611
► LAZARETTO a house for the reception of the diseased poor, esp. lepers; a hospital → 1549
► LAZAR-HOUSE a house for diseased persons, esp. lepers → 1530
► LOPSY LOWS an imaginary disease → 1968 Amer. dial.
► LURGI ► LURGY a fictitious, highly infectious disease; any unspecified but deleterious disease or ailment → 1954 Brit. sl.
► MALEASE disease, sickness → a1300 obs.
► MOLLYCODDLES an imaginary disease → 1969 Amer. dial.
► MURRAIN death by infectious disease or pestilence → a1387 obs.
► NADGERS, THE a non-specific disease, affliction, or illness → 1956 Brit. sl.
► NINE-O’CLOCK BENDS an imaginary disease → 1967 Amer. dial.
► NINE-O’CLOCK BLUES an imaginary disease → 1967 Amer. dial.
► NOSOMANIA an obsession with imagined disease → 1991 (Bk.)
► NOSOPHOBIA fear of contracting disease → 1991 (Bk.)
► OGGY a supposed ‘disease’ contracted by boys through physical interaction with girls → 1990s UK juvenile sl.
► OINDALEG a peculiar disease; distemper → 1898 Sc.
► ONCOME a mysterious disease; an illness the cause of which is unknown → 1819 Sc.
► ONE-LUNGER a wasting disease → 1930s US criminals’ sl.
► ONFALL an attack or access of disease, plague, or calamity → c1000 obs. exc. Sc.
► ONSET an attack of disease of unknown origin; a sharp attack of illness → 1818 Sc.
► PANDEMIA ► PANDEMY a pandemic disease, a disease prevalent over the whole of as country or continent, or over the whole world → 1853
► PATHOPHOBIA fear of disease → 1991 (Bk.)
► SCRUD a painful disease, esp. a venereal disease → 1930s US sl., orig. military
► SICK a disease or illness → a1300 obs.
► SMIT an infectious disease; an infection → 1838 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SOUGHT n. sickness, illness, disease → 1300 Eng. dial.
► TAKING an attack of disease; a stroke or palsy or the like → 1533 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► UNCOME a disease → 1538 obs.
► WILLY-NILLIES, THE an imaginary disease → 1965 Amer. dial.
► WOOLLIES, THE an imaginary disease → 1965 Amer. dial.
NOUNS – PERSON
► LAZAR a diseased and poor person, usually one afflicted with a loathsome disease, esp. a leper → 1340 arch.
► OBJECT a diseased person → 1605
► ONE-LUNGER a person having a wasting disease → 1930s US criminals’ sl.
► TYPHOID MARY a person who is the source of the spread of any infectious disease or infestation → 1909
VERBS
► AFAITE to affect with disease →1475 obs.
► CAST WATER to diagnose disease by the inspection of urine → 1580 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► HATCH to develop a disease → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► JUGULATE to stop the course of a disease by a powerful remedy → 1876
► LATCH to catch a disease → a1300 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► PALE to alleviate the symptoms of a disease without curing it; to relieve superficially or temporarily; to mitigate the sufferings of; to ease → c1400 obs.
► RAXON to taint with disease → 1790 Eng. dial.
► RUN OF A GARGET to become diseased → 1615
► SET UP to come down with or develop a disease or sickness → 1966 Amer. dial.
► SMITE to attack; to affect suddenly or seriously; said of a disease → a1325
► TAPIS ► TAPISH to be diseased or mortally sick → c1375 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► TARLOCH to show symptoms of disease → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)