Noun: measlings
Sample Sentences
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‘What āals yar barn, Missis?’
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‘Shoo’s gotten t’mezlings!’ [1862, C. Clough Robinson, The Dialect of Leeds & Its Neighbourhood, page 358:]
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Measlings, measles. [1890, The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences, s.v.:]
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Measlings... Nf [i.e. Norfolk]. [1970, Harold Orton et al., Survey of English Dialects, volume III, page 832:]
Nouns inflected like measlings
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Unknown, but probably via pluralia tantum Scandinavian words like Danish mæslinger (“measles”), Icelandic mislingar (“measles”) and Norwegian Nynorsk meslingar, combining the Germanic roots related to blood blisters with the suffix -ing.
Verbs referencing "measlings"
Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
meslinger, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
meslingar.