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sibbens

sibbens noun: a contagious disease, once endemic in Scotland, resembling the yaws and marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body. It was thought to be like syphillis.

Noun

sibbens (uncountable)

  1. A contagious disease, once endemic in Scotland, resembling the yaws and marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body. It was thought to be like syphillis.

Forms of sibbens

alternative formsivvens
alternative formsivens

Origin of sibbens

Uncertain.

Questions about sibbens

What does sibbens mean?
Sibbens means a contagious disease, once endemic in Scotland, resembling the yaws and marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body. It was thought to be like syphillis.
What part of speech is sibbens?
Sibbens is a noun.

Words near sibbens in the dictionary

  1. Sibals
  2. Sibambe
  3. Sibbald
  4. Sibbald's rorqual
  5. sibbed
  6. sibbens
  7. sibber
  8. sibberidge
  9. sibbest
  10. sibbing
  11. sibcest

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