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English
Etymology
From Middle English sanguisuge, from Latin sanguisuga, from sanguis (“blood”) + sugere (“to suck”).
Noun
sanguisuge (plural sanguisuges)
- (obsolete, rare) A leech (blood-sucking annelid).
a. 1529?, John Skelton , “The Image of Ipocrysy”, in The Political Works of Skelton and Donne, published 1879, page 408:For that blody judge
And mighty sanguisuge,
The Pope that is so huge,
Is ever ther refuge;
1585, Johann Jacob Wecker, translated by John Banister, A compendious chyrurgerie, book 3, chapter 14, page 452:Proceede to more manifest diminishing of the humor, by bludletting, cupping, or sanguisuges
1628, W. William Folkingham, Panala medica vel sanitatis et longævitatis alumna catholica = The fruitfull and frugall nourse of sound health and long life, page 116:Can slice a veine, and by the trifid sluce
Of sanguisuge diminish peccant blood
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Middle English
Etymology
From Latin sanguisuga.
Pronunciation
Noun
sanguisuge (plural sanguisugis) (rare, Late Middle English)
- leech
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