different between syphilitic vs pocky

syphilitic

English

Adjective

syphilitic (not comparable)

  1. (medicine) Of, relating to, or infected with syphilis.

Synonyms

  • luetic (obsolete)

Translations

Noun

syphilitic (plural syphilitics)

  1. A person with syphilis (but see people-first language).

Synonyms

  • luetic (obsolete)

Translations


Interlingua

Adjective

syphilitic (not comparable)

  1. syphilitic

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pocky

English

Etymology

From pock +? -y.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /p?ki/
  • Rhymes: -?ki

Adjective

pocky (comparative more pocky, superlative most pocky)

  1. Covered in pock marks; specifically, pox-ridden, syphilitic. [from 14th c.]
    • 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act V scene 1:
      Faith, if 'a be not rotten before 'a die (as we have many pocky corpses that will scarce hold the laying in) 'a will last you some eight year [...]
    • 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, IV:
      ‘You Damn'd Confounded Pocky Whore, I am glad we are met, for now will I give you as many Stripes as I've taken Pills, Bolus's, and other Hellish Slip-slops on your Account.’

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