canker – English noun declension

English noun forms of canker

Noun: canker
Singularcanker
Pluralcankers

Sample Sentences

  • Slightly sunken brown cankers of variable size and shape affect stem parts primarily below the soil line. [1977, The Potato: Major Diseases and Nematodes, International Potato Center, page 46:]
  • loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud[…] [1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 35”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:]
  • the canker of destitution and violence.
  • the cankers of envy and faction [c. 1690, Sir William Temple, Of Heroick Virtue:]
  • There’s canker at the root, your seed
  • Denies the blessing of the sun,
  • The light essential to your need.
  • Your hopes are murdered and undone. [1941, Theodore Roethke, “Feud”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 4:]
  • To put down Richard, that ſweet louely Roſe,
  • And plant this thorne, this canker Bullingbrooke? [c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], signature [B.iv.], recto:]
  • This Caſtoꝛ liueth by water and lande, he loueth to feede vpon Crabbes and Cankers of the Sea. [1562, Williyam Bulleyn [i.e., William Bullein], “The Booke of Simples”, in Bulleins Bulwarke of Defẽce againste All Sicknes, Sornes, and Woundes, That Dooe Daily Assaulte Mankinde, […], London: […] Ihon Kyngston, →OCLC, folio lxxx, verso:]
  • It is this power of active motion which has obtained it a local name in the West of Cornwall, where, as crabs in general are termed "cankers," this species is distinguished by the name of "flying canker." [1856, The Zoologist, volumes 14-15, page 5616:]

Etymology

From Middle English canker, cancre, from Old English cancer (“cancer; crab”), akin to Dutch kanker, Old High German chanchar. Ultimately from Latin cancer (“a cancer”). Doublet of cancer, a later borrowing from Latin, and chancre, which came through French. See: Middle English Nouns 'canker', Old English Nouns 'cancer', Dutch Nouns 'kanker', Latin Nouns 'cancer'.