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sivvens

sivvens is the alternative form of sibbens.

Meaning of sibbens

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.

Questions about sivvens

What is sivvens the alternative form of?
Sivvens is the alternative form of sibbens.

Words near sivvens in the dictionary

  1. Sivley
  2. Sivleys
  3. sivlonot
  4. Sivritos
  5. SIVs
  6. sivvens
  7. SIW
  8. Siwa
  9. Siwalikh Hills
  10. Siwan
  11. Siwanator

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