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kibe
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synonyms: chilblain ???
tags: [obsolete] [pathosis]
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Definition:a blister on the heel of the foot
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By the Lord, Horatio, this three years I have took note of it, the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier he galls his kibe.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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FACE. When you went pinn'd up in the several rags
You had raked and pick'd from dunghills, before day;
Your feet in mouldy slippers, for your kibes;
A felt of rug, and a thin threaden cloke,
That scarce would cover your no buttocks—
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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The hod-carrier, the low mechanic, the tapster, the publican, the shopkeeper, the pettifogger, the citizen, and courtier, all tread upon the kibes of one another:
Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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