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shanker:

1. A variation on chancre, the red, insensitive lesion of syphilis . Defined by Captain Francis Grose in Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811) as: ' A venereal wart .'

2. Gaylese for a person infected with syphilis . Synonym: siftless .


See Also: siftless

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