mama-pian
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English
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Etymology
Compound of mama + pian. Compare Spanish mama-pian, French mamanpian, mère des pians. First attested in 1822.
Noun
mama-pian (plural not attested) (Caribbean, obsolete)
- The primary lesion caused by yaws, typically surrounded by other, smaller lesions.
- Synonyms: mamma-yaw, master yaw, mother-yaw
- 1860, Robert J. Jordan, Skin Diseases and Their Remedies, page 191:
- One ulcer is usually larger and fouler than the rest, and this is known by the negroes […] as the mama-pian, or mama yaw.
- 1822, John Mason Good, edited by Samuel Cooper, The Study of Medicine, volume 2, page 675:
- [T]he master-fungus being named mama-pian, or mother-yaw, as supposed to be the source or supply of the rest.
- 1903 [1898], Sir Patrick Manson, Tropical Diseases, Cassell & Company, ltd., page 526:
- A large persistent yaw is sometimes known as the "mother," or "grandmother," or "mama-pian" […]
References
- “mama-pian, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
