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whitlow: synonyms: felon ???

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Definition:

an infected fingertip which often appears white.

It is also a common surname and the name of a few different towns(!)

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Then they would consult each other about their little ailments. One had scratched her finger, another had a whitlow; this one had risen in the morning with the white of her eye bloodshot; that one had put her finger out, telling her beads. All had some little thing the matter with them.

Honoré de Balzac. Droll Stories.

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and how little Fanny came by that whitlow, who said, Pa, Millers was going to poultice it when she didn't forget.

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)

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"Twas a bad leg allowed me to read the Pilgrim's Progress, and Mark Clark learnt All-Fours in a whitlow."

Thomas Hardy. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)