carbuncular

American  

[kahr-buhng-kyuh-ler] / kɑrˈbʌŋ kyə lər /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or resembling a carbuncle, especially having a carbuncle or a red and inflamed area.

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Etymology

Origin of carbuncular

1730–40; < Latin carbuncul ( us ) ( see carbuncle) + -ar ¹

Example Sentences

"They seek the secret of the Grail," gasps carbuncular nobleman Bertrand, as swarms of rhubarbing crusaders prepare to storm his ramparts.

From The Guardian • Mar. 30, 2013

There are too many "young men carbuncular" within its limits, deceiving themselves with "systematic lies," failing to acknowledge "the agony and horror of modern life."

From Time Magazine Archive

Just as Karl Marx left his carbuncular anger to his heirs, so Freud's brilliant but obstinate, vain and hypersensitive character seems to have shaped the psychoanalytic movement.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was suffering severely from a carbuncular boil on the thigh, which he refused to have properly opened.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

A more severe staphylococcal infection may give rise to a carbuncular swelling with great œdema, and lead to infective phlebitis of the facial vein and general septicæmia.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander