quinsy
pronunciation
How to pronounce quinsy in British English:
UK ['kwɪnzɪ]
How to pronounce quinsy in American English:
US ['kwɪnzɪ]
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- Noun:
- a painful pus-filled inflammation of the tonsils and surrounding tissues; usually a complication of tonsillitis
Word Origin
- quinsy
- quinsy: [14] Quinsy, a now virtually obsolete term for ‘sore throat’, has one of those etymologies that strain credulity to the limit. For it comes ultimately from a Greek term that meant literally ‘dog-strangling’. This was kunágkhē, a compound formed from kúōn ‘dog’ (a distant relative of English hound) and ágkhein ‘strangle’, which originally denoted a sort of throat infection of dogs, which impaired their breathing, and was subsequently extended to a similar complaint in humans. English acquired the word via medieval Latin quinancia and Old French quinencie.=> hound
- quinsy (n.)
- "severe sore throat," late 14c., qwinaci, from Old French quinancie (Modern French esquinacie), from Late Latin cynanche, from Greek kynankhe "sore throat," also "dog collar," literally "dog-choking," from kyon (genitive kynos) "dog" (see canine) + ankhein "to strangle," cognate with Latin angere (see anger (v.)).
Example
- 1. Does chronic quinsy have chinese traditional medicine to administer a law ?