Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The whooping-cough.
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Examples
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“Yes, mem, I've had the sma'pox, the nirls [63], the blabs [64], the scaw [65], the kinkhost [66], and the fever, the branks [67] and the worm [68].”
Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874
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