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furuncular en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /f(j)ʊˈɹʌŋkjʊlə/ (UK)

Etymology

From furuncle + -ar.

Meanings

1. (rare) Pertaining to furuncles or boils.
   • He remembered the inspector's pipe studded with Bohemian gems (in harmony with its owner's furuncular nose) and also the habit Armande had of exchanging ribald comments in Swiss-German with the old fellow while he was examining the rubbish under a cracked seat. 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 88:

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