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- noun Plural form of
bubukle .
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Examples
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In short, it reminds one of Bardolph's face -- 'all bubukles and whelks and knobs.'
The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan
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“His face is all bubukles, and whelks, and knobs, and flames of fire; and his lips plows at his nose, and it is like a coal of fire, sometimes plue, and sometimes red; but his nose is executed, and his fire is out.”
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872
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"His face is all bubukles, and whelks, and knobs, and flames of fire; and his lips plows at his nose, and it is like a coal of fire, sometimes plue, and sometimes red; but his nose is executed, and his fire is out."
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850
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Seamed with many scars, and destitute of the left eye, the orifice of which was covered, with a huge black patch; his face was of a deep mulberry colour, clearly attesting his devotion to the bottle; while his nose, which was none of the smallest, was covered with "bubukles, and whelks, and knobs, and flames of fire."
Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
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Bardolph, if your majesty know the man: his face is all bubukles, and whelks, and knobs, and flames o 'fire: and his lips blows at his nose, and it is like
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Bardolph, if your majesty know the man: his face is all bubukles, and whelks, and knobs, and flames o’ fire: and his lips blows at his nose, and it is like
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Bardolph, if your majesty knows the man: his face is all bubukles, [14] and whelks, [15] and knobs, and flames of fire: and his lips plows at his nose, and it is like a coal of fire, sometimes plue, and sometimes red; but his nose is executed, and his fire’s out. [
King Henry the Fifth Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre William Shakespeare 1590
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