Synonyms for bunion

Grammar : Noun

Spell : buhn-yuh n

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbʌn yən

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Définition of bunion

Origin : 1718, apparently from East Anglian dialectic bunny "lump, swelling" (16c.), which is probably from Middle French buigne "bump on the head, swelling from a blow" (see bun).

As in swelling : noun physical growth; lump

Example sentences :

Owing, I fancy, to a bunion, she was so leisurely a walker that it was I who must set my pace to hers.
Extract from : « Memoirs of a Midget » by Walter de la Mare

Here you are, gents, the most wonderful corn and bunion salve in the market!
Extract from : « Young Auctioneers » by Edward Stratemeyer

And, stepping forward in the boat, he kicked Michael on a bunion.
Extract from : « The Plow-Woman » by Eleanor Gates

I flatter myself we could fit the biggest beetle-crusher ever bunion'd into the shape of a giant potato or a Californian nugget.
Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93. July 30, 1887 » by Various

Bunion, bun′yun, n. a lump or inflamed swelling on the ball of the great toe.
Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) » by Various

She said there wasn't no such thing as pain, and the bunion made it its first business to do a little denyin' on its own account.
Extract from : « Flower of the Dusk » by Myrtle Reed

In the general relaxation Dolly Beatty slipped off her tightest shoe, one bunion and four corns clamoring loudly for room.
Extract from : « Green Valley » by Katharine Reynolds

When a bunion is forming it may be stopped by poulticing and carefully opening it with a lancet.
Extract from : « Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 » by Barkham Burroughs

An enlargement of the basal joint of the great toe, probably a bunion, is also comparatively common.
Extract from : « The Bontoc Igorot » by Albert Ernest Jenks

A bursa may form beneath a corn, and if inflamed constitutes one form of bunion.
Extract from : « Manual of Surgery » by Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles

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