Reverse Dictionary: SORE

ADJECTIVES
► AGUEFIED pained, stiff, sore, as with ague → 1939 Amer. dial.
► ANGRY of a wound or sore: inflamed, red → 1884 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► COCOBAY having a skin covered in repulsive sores → 20C W. Indies sl.
► ELDRITCH of a sore or wound: painful → 1808 Sc. obs.
► RANCOROUS of a wound or sore: festering, inflamed, full of corruption, suppurating → 1660 obs.
► SAIR causing physical pain or distress; sore → 1808 Sc.
► SAIRISH somewhat sore → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCALDERED blistered, sore, chafed → 1796 Eng. dial.
► SORE AS A BOIL, AS very painful, sore → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► TETTERED having sore places; having the skin roughened by the wind → 1876 Eng. dial.
► VOID of sores, etc.: raw → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

NOUNS
► ALLERNBATCH a boil, a carbuncle; an old sore → 1746 Eng. dial.
► ATTER a scab, a dry sore → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BLAIN a fault; a blemish; a scar; discolouration of skin after a sore → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BOBO a hurt or sore, an abrasion, a cut → 1969 Amer. dial.
► BUG a fearful looking sore artificially produced to simulate a burn or scald by the use of Spanish blister → 1914 criminals’ sl.  (Bk.)
► BURNING a sore caused by fire or heat; a burn → 1542obs.
► CANKERFRET a sore or blister in the mouth → 19C Eng. dial.
► CLEYME  ► CLYME an artificial sore or wound, as placed on the body by a variety of mendicant villains → 17C UK criminals’ sl.
► DUDLEY (MOORE) a sore; hence, any kind of uncomfortable skin condition → 1992 UK rhyming sl.
► EHA pain; a sore → 1938 Hawaii 
► ERCLE a small swelling, a watery blister; a pimple, a sore place → 1876 Eng. dial.
► FALE a pustule, a sore → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FOX an artificial sore → 1862 sl.
► GAGGER a deep, ragged cut or wound; a large, festering sore → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► GALL a sore place or abrasion on the skin → 1793 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► GAW a sore place or abrasion on the skin → 1793 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► GOWK the central portion of anything; the core of fruit; the hard centre of a boil or sore → 1788 Eng. dial.
► GRAZZLE new-formed skin on a sore → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HAGGERAL a large, open, festering sore → 1866 Sc.
► HATTEREL ► HITTERIL a collection of sores in any part of the body; a series of scabs running into one another → 1892 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► KYLE a sore, an ulcer, a boil → 1340 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► PAID a sore → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RANKLE a festering sore → c1380 obs. rare
► RED-ROW a sore before it begins to heal → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► REEF a skin eruption; the itch; the mange; a sore in the head → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► RUNAROUND ► RUN-ROUND a suppurative inflammatory sore or swelling in a finger or thumb → M19 US sl.
► RUNNING a sore or wound that discharges pus → c1384 obs.
► SAIR a sore; a wound, a bruise → 1768 Sc.
► SARKFUL OF SORE BONES, A a sore body → 1721 Sc.
► SCALDER a sore or ‘angry’ place → 1714 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SCALL a scab, a blister; a skin sore → 1677 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SCOB a sore on the body → 1950 Sc.
► STRAWBERRY a sore or bruise, esp. one caused by friction with the ground → 1921 N. Amer. colloq.
► TAKING a seizure or attack of disease; a stroke or palsy or the like; an attack of illness; a sudden seizure of pain; a sore, a swelling also, enchantment → 1533 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► TEAKERS a running of watery matter from a sore → 19C Eng. dial. obs.
► VENOM the discharge from a sore or wound → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

VERBS
► BELL of a sore: to throb, to be inflamed → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DEG ► DEGG of a sore: to run, to ooze; to fester → 1859 Eng. dial.  
► CLAW ON THE GALL to touch a person on a sore or tender point → c1386 obs.
► GALL to make sore by chafing or rubbing → c1440
► RAGE of a tooth or sore: to ache violently → 1567
► RUB ON THE GALL to touch a person on a sore or tender point → 1523 obs.
► SCOURGE to become red and sore; to chap → 1892 Eng. dial.