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shoebite en · NOUN

Etymology

From shoe + bite.

Meanings

1. (India, countable, uncountable) A blister caused by the chafing of a shoe or boot.
   • The next day Lalitha complained of a shoebite and we spent thirty six francs by taxi to buy inexpensive open sandals! 2000, Alladi Ramakrishnan, The Alladi diary: Ekamra Nivas to MATSCIENCE, page 179:
   • The sepoys have suffered in many cases from shoebite or blistered feet, but they rarely require treatment in hospital. They are excused from wearing boots until the blister heals. 1874, Medical and Sanitary Report of the Native Army of Madras, page 133:
   • […] states that in two of his cases the diagnosis was at first mistaken, the sore in one instance being considered primarily as a form of ringworm and in the other as an ordinary "shoebite." 1906, The Philippine Journal of Science, volumes 1-5, page 100:

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