Mama-pian

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The primary lesion caused by yaws, typically surrounded by other, smaller lesions. Caribbean, no-plural, obsolete

    "One ulcer is usually larger and fouler than the rest, and this is known by the negroes […] as the mama-pian, or mama yaw."

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mamma-yawmaster yawmother-yaw

Example

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"One ulcer is usually larger and fouler than the rest, and this is known by the negroes […] as the mama-pian, or mama yaw."

Etymology

Compound of mama + pian. Compare Spanish mama-pian, French mamanpian, mère des pians. First attested in 1822.

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