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Lunger   Listen
noun
lunger  n.  A person with pulmonary tuberculosis. (informal)
Synonyms: consumptive.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Lunger" Quotes from Famous Books



... a lunger," Brissenden announced, offhand, a little later, having already stated that he came from Arizona. "I've been down there a couple of years living on ...
— Martin Eden • Jack London

... stouter and more rubicund than I might have expected, with just a sprinkling of gray under his lopsided Stetson to announce that Time hasn't been standing still for any of us. But one would never have taken him for an ex-lunger. And there is a wholesomeness about the man, for all his quietness, which draws one to him. Olga herself still again impressed me as a Zorn etching come to life, as a Norse myth in petticoats, with the same old largeness of ...
— The Prairie Child • Arthur Stringer



Words linked to "Lunger" :   tubercular, lunge, mover, diseased person, sick person



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