sibbensとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Stedman 1922 says from Gaelic "subhag"?, raspberry, cf. frambesia”) Uncertain.

名詞

sibbens (uncountable)

1. (medicine) 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.

参照

• “sibbens”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.