How to use gumboil in a sentence
Grace wouldn't touch them; said she had enough pig in her system to last her ten years and she knew she'd break out in gumboils.
Green Valley | Katharine ReynoldsRoasted and boiled figs are occasionally employed as poultices to gumboils and other affections of the mouth.
No, that's for housemaid's knee, gumboils and that sort of thing.
The Witch Doctor and other Rhodesian Studies | Frank WorthingtonA rum steak—it was "rum," inflicted us with gumboils for a week.
Norman Ten Hundred | A. Stanley Blicq
British Dictionary definitions for gumboil
gumboil
/ (ˈɡʌmˌbɔɪl) /
noun
an abscess on the gums, often at the root of a decayed tooth: Also called: parulis
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