bubo

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun a lymph node that is inflamed and swollen because of plague or gonorrhea or tuberculosis
noun a genus of Strigidae

Late Middle English, from Medieval Latin būbō, from Ancient Greek βουβών (boubṓn, “groin, swelling”).

Shankers and buboes! stand off! godzooks, let us make the best of our way. — Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais
For he is ever anchoring himself upon some passion, and fattening it, and, like a bubo, fastens himself on some unsound and inflamed parts of the soul. — Plutarch's Morals, Plutarch

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