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syph

syph is the clipping of syphilis.

Meaning of syphilis

Noun

syphilis (uncountable)

  1. A disease spread via sexual activity, caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum.
    • I saw a film the other day about syphilis. Ugh! It was too awful. I couldn't let a man touch me for a week. Is it true you can get it from kissing?1972, Jay Presson Allen, Cabaret, spoken by Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli)

Origin of syph

Clipping of syphilis.

Words that rhyme with syph

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Questions about syph

What is syph the clipping of?
Syph is the clipping of syphilis.

Words near syph in the dictionary

  1. synæsthetic
  2. synœcism
  3. syon
  4. Syosset
  5. SYP
  6. syph
  7. syphaxin
  8. syphed up
  9. sypher
  10. syphered
  11. syphering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: syph (page history and authors); syphilis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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