bubukle
bubukle noun: a red pimple.
Noun
bubukle (plural bubukles)
- A red pimple.
- His face is all bubukles, and whelks, and knobs, and flames o' fire; and his lips blows 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.1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
- His moon face wore the perpetual smile of a simpleton and was headlighted by a bubukle nose. The facial blotch was not congenital but was from mustard gas in '17.1948, Andrew Geer, The Sea Chase, page 8
Forms of bubukle
| plural | bubukles |
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Origin of bubukle
Perhaps related to bubo and/or carbuncle.
Questions about bubukle
- What does bubukle mean?
- Bubukle means a red pimple.
- What part of speech is bubukle?
- Bubukle is a noun.
- What is the plural of bubukle?
- The plural of bubukle is bubukles.
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