whitlow
Meaning of whitlow
noun
an abscess in the soft tissue near a fingernail or toenail.
late Middle English (also as whitflaw, -flow ), apparently from white + flaw1 in the sense ‘crack’, but perhaps related to Dutch fijt ‘whitlow’.
Information about whitlow
- It is a name.
- The plural form of whitlow is: whitlows.
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Hyphenation of whitlow
whit-low
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- whitlow is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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Words that rhyme with whitlow
matlow, fetlow, Gitlow, Partlow
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