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soot wart

soot wart noun: a hyperkeratotic lesion on the scrotum, formerly associated with chimney sweeps.

Noun

soot wart (plural soot warts)

  1. A hyperkeratotic lesion on the scrotum, formerly associated with chimney sweeps.
    • He recorded that [...] scrotal cancer typically burst out of a superficial skin wound that tradesmen called a soot wart.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 238

Synonyms of soot wart

Forms of soot wart

pluralsoot warts

Questions about soot wart

What does soot wart mean?
Soot wart means a hyperkeratotic lesion on the scrotum, formerly associated with chimney sweeps.
What part of speech is soot wart?
Soot wart is a noun.
What is the plural of soot wart?
The plural of soot wart is soot warts.

Words near soot wart in the dictionary

  1. soot balls
  2. soot blower
  3. soot blowers
  4. soot devil
  5. soot devils
  6. soot wart
  7. soot warts
  8. soot-ball
  9. soot-balls
  10. soot-oh
  11. soot-proof

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