bubukle
English edit
Etymology edit
Perhaps related to bubo and/or carbuncle.
Noun edit
bubukle (plural bubukles)
- (obsolete, nonce word) A red pimple.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- His face is all bubukles, and whelks, and knobs, and flames o' fire; and his lips blows at his nose, and it is like a coal of fire, sometimes plue and sometimes red; but his nose is executed, and his fire's out.
- 1948, Andrew Geer, The Sea Chase, page 8:
- His moon face wore the perpetual smile of a simpleton and was headlighted by a bubukle nose. The facial blotch was not congenital but was from mustard gas in '17.
- 1951, Ivor John Carnegie Brown, I Break My Word, page 30:
- Probably it was less painful to have white whelks than red carbuncles and bubukles.