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carbuncle

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈkɑː.bʌŋ.kl̩/Part of speech nounSorted abccelnruStarts with CEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. an infection larger than a boil and with several openings for discharge of pus

Word origin

From Middle English carbuncle, charbocle, from Old French carbuncle, charbuncle, from Latin carbunculus (“a small coal; a reddish kind of precious stone; a kind of tumor”), diminutive of carbō (“a coal, charcoal”). Doublet of Garfinkel and Garfunkel.

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  • With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus […]
  • And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
  • His turban, or mandil [mandīl], was of finest white silk interwoven with gold, bestudded with pearl[s] and carbuncles; […]

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