[Ads-l] Youneverknow: "bleb"

[Paul A Johnston, Jr.]

Wilson--it's in Survey of English Dialects too, meaning "blister" in the North of England.

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> "Now, the leeches, in sucking, do engender and leave behind little
> _blebs_
> or blisters full of blood."
> 
> Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies
> Brant=C3=B4me, Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de, 1540-1614
> Translated by A[lfred].R[ichard]. Allinson in 2 vols.
> Charles Carrington: Paris, 1901-1902
> 
> Until ca. 45 minutes ago, I was under the impression that I
> personally had
> invented the word, "bleb," used in just this meaning of "small wound"
>  and
> that I was the only person in the history of the English language
> ever to
> use it.
> --=20
> -Wilson
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
> to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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