bubukle
Noun
A red pimple.
Usage- nonce-word
- Obsolete
- Examples
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More examples (2)
His face is all bubukles, and whelks, and knobs, and flames o' fire; and his lips blows at his nose, and it is like a coal of fire, sometimes plue and sometimes red; but his nose is executed, and his fire's out.
His moon face wore the perpetual smile of a simpleton and was headlighted by a bubukle nose. The facial blotch was not congenital but was from mustard gas in '17.
Probably it was less painful to have white whelks than red carbuncles and bubukles.
Word forms
bubukles