bubukle

Definitions

A red pimple.

nonce-word, obsolete

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“Probably it was less painful to have⟳ white whelks than red carbuncles and bubukles.”

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