bubukle

English

Etymology

Perhaps related to bubo and/or carbuncle.

Noun

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.