water pox

See also: waterpox

English

Etymology

Compound of water +‎ pox. Attested from the nineteenth century.

Noun

water pox (uncountable)

1. (medicine, dated) A common childhood disease caused by virus; chickenpox, varicella.
   • 1801, Philipp Andreas Nemnich, Lexicon Nosologicum Polygloton:

     Water pox. Varicella.

   • 1839, “Heim on small-pox and vaccination in the Kingdom of Wirtemberg”, in British and Foreign Medical Review, volume 7:

     Varicella (water-pox, stone-pox, wind-pox,) is said to be often epidemic at the period of the public vaccinations...

Translations

A common childhood disease caused by virus

• Afrikaans: waterpokkies
• Azerbaijani: suçiçəyi
• Chinese: 水痘 (zh) (shuǐdòu)
• Danish: vandkopper
• Dutch: waterpokken (nl)
• German: Windpocken (de), Wasserpocken
• Japanese: 水疱瘡 (ja) (mizubōsō), 水痘 (ja) (suidō)
• Luxembourgish: Waasserpouken (lb)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vannkopper (no)

  Nynorsk: vasskoppar

• Serbo-Croatian: vodene kozice
• Swedish: vattkoppor (sv)

References

“water pox”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.