bubo
(ˈbjuːbəʊ)
Pl. buboes.
[a. late L. bubo, ad. Gr. βουβῶν the groin, a swelling in the groin.]
An inflamed swelling or abscess in glandular parts of the body, esp. the groin or arm-pits. (An ordinary symptom of the plague in the 17th c.) Also attrib., as in bubo plague.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. lix. (1495) 273 Somtyme a postume comyth of ventosite and of wynde and hight Bubo. 1597 Gerard Herbal iii. cxxxiii. (1633) 1511 Which imposthume is called Bubo by reason of his lurking in such secret places. 1658 Rowland Mouffet's Theat. Ins. 1050 A Bubo riseth on a man that he [the scorpion] stings. 1782 W. Heberden Comment. vii. (1806) 23 These sores therefore, like pestilential buboes, point out the nature of the disorder. 1839–47 Todd Cycl. Anat. & Phys. III. 233/2 A bubo will originate from..inflamed inguinal or axillary glands. |
Hence ˈbuboed ppl. a., affected with buboes.
| 1824–29 Landor Imag. Conv. (1846) II. 126 They are not blotched and buboed with its pestilence. |