QUINSY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quinsy mean? 

• QUINSY (noun)
  The noun QUINSY has 1 sense:

1. a painful pus filled inflammation of the tonsils and surrounding tissues; usually a complication of tonsillitis

  Familiarity information: QUINSY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUINSY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A painful pus filled inflammation of the tonsils and surrounding tissues; usually a complication of tonsillitis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

peritonsillar abscess; quinsy

Hypernyms ("quinsy" is a kind of...):

angina (any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain)

 Context examples 

He’d had the quinsy and swollen glands when he was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)