whitlows
Meaning of whitlows
plural 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 whitlows
- It is a name.
- The singular form of whitlows is: whitlow.
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Hyphenation of whitlows
whit-lows
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- whitlows is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with whitlows
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