chancre
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chancre
- /ˈʃæŋ.kɚ/
Rhymes with -æŋkə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French chancre (“cancer”), from Latin cancer (“crab”). Cognate to canker and cancer.
noun chancres
- Skin lesion, sometimes associated with certain contagious diseases such as syphilis. The nurse stood up and went towards the door. At that point the caretaker said to me, "It's a chancre she's got." I didn't understand, so I looked at the nurse and saw that she had a bandage round her head just below the eyes. Where her nose should have been, the bandage was flat. Her face seemed to
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Talk about this word "chancre." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/chancre. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. chancre. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/chancre "chancre." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/chancre.Cite this
@misc{chancre_2026,
title = {chancre},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/chancre},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
