Citations:syph

English citations of syph

Noun: "(slang) syphilis"

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• 1951 — James Jones, From Here to Eternity, Open Road Integrated Media (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  Why, getting drunk and running wild is not only a soldier's nature, its^[sic] almost his sacred duty: just like the way Ernest Hemingway said that syph was the occupational disease of bullfighters and soldiers.

• 1963 — Ed Lacy, Two Hot to Handle, Prologue Books (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  There was this air of mourning about Roogona which spooked me, the Marquesas always effect me like this, as though the ghosts of the hundreds of thousands of islanders who died here of the popaas' TB and syph, were looking down, or up, at us.

• 1980 — James Herbert, The Dark, Pan Books (1994), →ISBN, page 229:

  But since Brother Martin, alias Marty Randall, had caught the syph three times in two years, his attitude had changed.

• 1986 — L. Ron Hubbard, Mission Earth: Death Quest, Galaxy Press (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  […] And for that, after I shoot you, I'm going to rape your corpse and give it syph, clap and all!"

• 1989 — Pete Hamill, Loving Women, Random House (1989), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  A white draft dodger, a white murderer on parole, the head of the Mafia, a white hooker with the syph — they can all swim on the beach, but Bobby Bolden can't?

• 1996 — Dan Savage, "Savage Love", Chicago Reader, 21 March 1996:

  If your partner has HIV, syph, or any of the rest of the claps, a broken condom in either orifice could ruin, or significantly shorten, your life.

• 2007 — Edward Lee, House Infernal, Dorchester Publishing (2007), →ISBN, page 83:

  Ruth had had a touch of gonorrhea and syph herself a few times.