Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A contagious skin disease prevalent in tropical America, caused by a spirochete (Treponema carateum) and marked by extreme thickening and spotty discoloration of the skin.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A skin-affection which prevails in Mexico.
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- noun UK, colloquial A
pint ofmilk . - noun A
human skin disease endemic toMexico ,Central America , andSouth America , caused byinfection with aspirochete , Treponema pallidum carateum, which ismorphologically andserologically indistinguishable from the organism that causessyphilis .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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For example, the use by the Milk Board in Britain of the word pinta is symbolic to residents but not readily meaningful to visitors from, say, America, where milk is usually sold in quarts, not pints, to whom pinta may look more like a female pinto (horse) than a "pint o 'milk."
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In Lath America an infectious disease called pinta starts with bluish or red pimples and later leaves pale or white patches.
Chapter 22 1993
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If the names of his ships had been listed in another way, they would have made the phrase "Holy Mary (Santa María) paints (pinta) the girl (niña)".
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February 7th, 2007 at 5: 45 am it is so cool, but how you do it. one word “pinta” or that is a good expression of art in a creative way marisol Says:
Latte Art 2007
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March 15th, 2007 at 6: 39 am es pinta o genial pero un gasto de comida.
Latte Art 2007
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Moose se dedica al Street art y a la publicidad, pero de una forma un tanto peculiar, en vez de utilizar tinta o pintura como hace el resto de gente que pinta en la calle, él utiliza materiales de limpieza para dejar su marca.
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No one knows for sure what causes this disorder, but it is thought to be caused by a treponematosis, a disease caused by a similar but not identical agent as that that causes yaws, pinta or even syphilis.
Nutrition and health in agriculturalists and hunter-gatherers | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009
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Jules - I'd love a quiet pinta sometime - although I'm less blue now after a nice weekend off.
Tired on Friday - but who isn't? Imogen 2009
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Cuatro tapaos con pinta de muerte en la negrura tironeaban seis miedos y un valor desvelado.
veruscio Diary Entry veruscio 2008
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Que ricossss los brownies! tienen una pinta deliciosa!
Brownies: Simple, Sublime Mercedes 2007
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