whitlow

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈʍɪt.loʊ/|/ˈwɪt.loʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An infection near or under the cuticle of a fingernail or toenail.
    — 'Twas a bad leg allowed me to read the Pilgrim's Progress, and Mark Clark learnt All-Fours in a whitlow.

词形变化

whitlows plural

词源

From Late Middle English, an alteration of whitflaw, with the first element deriving either from Middle Dutch vijt or Low German fit (“abscess”), borrowed from Latin fīcus (“fig-shaped (ulcer)”), though also influenced by white. The Latin loan also existed in other languages, such as Old English fic (“hemorrhoids”). See flaw.
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