Noun: rash
| Singular | rash |
| Plural | rashes |
Sample Sentences
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He came out in a rash because of an allergy.
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She applied rash cream on herself to reduce the irritation.
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A wet cloth should help with the rash on your arm.
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There has been a rash of vandalism lately.
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Wet through and through: with her feet squelching and squashing in her shoes whenever she moved; with a rash of rain upon her classical visage; […] [1854, Charles Dickens, “Lower and Lower”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, 2nd book (Reaping), page 252:]
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Until the recent rash of North London line maps appeared on station billboards in the London area of BR, the service undoubtedly suffered from meagre and ineffectual publicity. [1964 July, “News and Comment: The Broad Street-Richmond line”, in Modern Railways, page 17:]
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Science has tried and failed to come to a consensus about the hygienic superiority of one product over the other. Even so, the paper towel industry has funded or promoted a rash of studies claiming that hand dryers turn bathrooms into mosh pits of pathogens. [2019 April 25, Samanth Subramanian, “Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2022:]
Nouns inflected like rash
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Probably from Old French rasche, rache (“skin eruption, rash; (specifically) scabies, scurf”) (obsolete), from racher (“to scrape; to scratch”) (although this is only directly attested later than the noun), from Vulgar Latin *rāsicāre (“to scrape”), from Latin rāsus (“scraped, scratched; shaved”), the perfect passive participle of rādō (“to scrape, scratch; to shave; to rub, smooth; to brush along, graze”). Doublet of rase and raze.
2. Cognates
3. * French rash, rach (“skin eruption, rash”) (rare) (borrowed from English rash)
4. * Italian rasca, raschia (“skin eruption like scabies”) (obsolete) (both borrowed from Old Occitan)
5. * Old Occitan rasca (“skin eruption like scabies”) See: Latin Nouns '
rāsus', Italian Nouns '
rasca'.