bubukle

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English

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Etymology

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Perhaps related to bubo and/or carbuncle.

Noun

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bubukle (plural bubukles)

  1. (obsolete, nonce word) A red pimple.
    • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      His face is all bubukles, and whelks, and knobs, and flames o' fire; and his lips blows at his nose, and it is like a coal of fire, sometimes plue and sometimes red; but his nose is executed, and his fire's out.
    • 1948, Andrew Geer, The Sea Chase, page 8:
      His moon face wore the perpetual smile of a simpleton and was headlighted by a bubukle nose. The facial blotch was not congenital but was from mustard gas in '17.
    • 1951, Ivor John Carnegie Brown, I Break My Word, page 30:
      Probably it was less painful to have white whelks than red carbuncles and bubukles.