bone-ache (n.), Neapolitan bone-ache Old form(s): bone-ach
[pain in the bones from Naples] syphilis, venereal disease
TC II.iii.18[Thersites alone] the vengeance on the whole camp - or rather, the Neopolitan bone-ache
TC V.i.21[Thersites to Patroclus] the rotten diseases of the south ... incurable bone-ache [in Q only]
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