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whitlow
noun
[ ˈwɪtləʊ ]
• an abscess in the soft tissue near a fingernail or toenail.
Origin:
late Middle English (also as whitflaw, -flow ), apparently from white + flaw1 in the sense ‘crack’, but perhaps related to Dutch fijt ‘whitlow’.
