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• meslings (obs.)

語源

Unknown, but probably via Scandinavian forms such as Swedish mässlingen (“pustules, measles”), Danish mæslinger (“measles”), Icelandic mislingar (“measles”), etc. combining the Germanic roots related to blood blisters with the suffix -ing.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiːzlɪŋz/

名詞

measlings pl (normally 複数形, 単数形 measling)

1. (UK dialect) Synonym of measles: the disease caused by M. morbillivirus, the red spots caused by the disease.
   • 1862, C. Clough Robinson, The Dialect of Leeds & Its Neighbourhood, p. 358:

     ‘What āals yar barn, Missis?’
     ‘Shoo’s gotten t’mezlings!’

   • 1890, The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences, s.v.:

     Measlings, measles.

   • 1970, Harold Orton & al., Survey of English Dialects, Vol. III, p. 832:

     Measlings... Nf [i.e. Norfolk].

参照

• “measlings, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.