whitlows

Meaning of whitlows

plural noun

an abscess in the soft tissue near a fingernail or toenail.

late Middle English (also as whitflaw, -flow ), apparently from white + flaw1 in the sense ‘crack’, but perhaps related to Dutch fijt ‘whitlow’.

Information about whitlows

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of whitlows is: whitlow.
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Hyphenation of whitlows

whit-lows

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • whitlows is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with whitlows

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