Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An Anglicized spelling of
chancre .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) See
chancre .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
chancre .
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Examples
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Celsus, however, names (De obscenarum partium vitiis, lib. xviii.) inflammatio coleorum (swelled testicle), tubercula glandem (warts on the glans penis), cancri carbunculi (chancre or shanker) and a few others.
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Eusebius relating that Galerius died (A.D. 302) of ulcers on the genitals and other parts of his body; and, about a century afterwards, Bishop Palladius records that one Hero, after conversation with a prostitute, fell a victim to an abscess on the penis (phagedænic shanker?).
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Help, here, in the name of five hundred thousand millions of cartloads of devils, help! may a shanker gnaw thy moustachios, and the three rows of pock-royals and cauliflowers cover thy bum and turd-barrel instead of breeches and codpiece.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Help, here, in the name of five hundred thousand millions of cartloads of devils, help! may a shanker gnaw thy moustachios, and the three rows of pock-royals and cauliflowers cover thy bum and turd-barrel instead of breeches and codpiece.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The chancre pronounced “shanker” is a sore that appears anywhere from two weeks to two months following initial contact with an infected partner.
Getting Pregnant Niels H. Lauersen 2000
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I expect some skrim-shanker at the post-office or at the base is pinching it ....
Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols
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He'd sit down all of a sudden, put on a stupid look, do the scrim-shanker stunt, and flop like a bundle of dirty linen.
Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904
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Will it satisfy you if I own that I am a shirker, a skrim-shanker, and a coward?
The Story of the Gadsbys Rudyard Kipling 1900
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'Keep back that young skrim-shanker Porkiss, sir, and let Revere make him sit up.'
Under the Deodars Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Will it satisfy you if I own that I am a shirker, a skrim-shanker, and a coward?
Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900
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