Pronounced: pih-SHOHG, noun
Notes: I have not run across this word
Yesterday’s word
The word chilblain is “an inflammatory swelling or sore caused by exposure (such as feed or hands) to cold”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1500s
Background / Comments
As you might expect, the first part of our word came from “chill”, which came from the Old English word ciele (frost; chill), which is related to the Old English word ceald, an ancestor of “cold”. The second part of the word is a word by itself, meaning “an inflammatory swelling or sore”)” — it came from the Old English word blegen. When our word first appeared, it was spelled “chyll blayne”.
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