English Explanatory Dictionary

sibbens

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A contagious disease, once endemic in Scotland, resembling the yaws and marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body.

Word forms

sibbens sivvens sivens

Etymology

Uncertain.

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