Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The whooping-cough.

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Examples

  • “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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