gumbo
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All they knew was how to pull teeth, open gumboils.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Grace wouldn't touch them; said she had enough pig in her system to last her ten years and she knew she'd break out in gumboils.
From Green Valley by Reynolds, Katharine
A rum steak—it was "rum," inflicted us with gumboils for a week.
From Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry by Blicq, A. Stanley
Vocabulary lists containing gumbo
The Melting Pot: Food Words from Other Languages
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