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mumps

noun

1 mumps

An acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands.

synonym: epidemic parotitis.

Roget 837: dejection; dejectedness etc. adj.; depression, prosternation; lowness of spirits, depression of spirits; weight on the spirits, oppression on the spirits, damp on the spirits; low spirits, bad spirits, drooping spirits, ... show more

Roget 901a: sullenness etc. adj.; morosity, spleen; churlishness etc. (discourtesy) 895; irascibility etc. 901.    moodiness ... show more

Roget 655: disease; illness, sickness etc. adj.; ailing &c.; all the ills that flesh is heir to" [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; ... show more

Dutch: de bof, bof, dikoor
Polish: świnka, nagminne zapalenie przyusznic


Moby thesaurus: African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles, Haverhill fever, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, bacillary dysentery, bastard measles, black death, black fever, blackwater fever, blahs, blue devils, blues, breakbone fever ... show more.

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