rash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: rashes
Etymology: 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.
Cognates
* French rash, rach (“skin eruption, rash”) (rare) (borrowed from English rash)
* Italian rasca, raschia (“skin eruption like scabies”) (obsolete) (both borrowed from Old Occitan)
* Old Occitan rasca (“skin eruption like scabies”)
Senses: examples: text: He came out in a rash because of an allergy.
text: She applied rash cream on herself to reduce the irritation.
text: A wet cloth should help with the rash on your arm.
topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: An area of inflamed and irritated skin characterized by reddened spots that may be filled with fluid or pus. Also, preceded by a descriptive word (rare or obsolete), an illness characterized by a type of rash.
glosses: An irregular distribution or sprinkling of objects resembling a rash (sense 1).
examples: text: There has been a rash of vandalism lately.
text: 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; […]
ref: 1854, Charles Dickens, “Lower and Lower”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, 2nd book (Reaping), page 252:
text: 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.
ref: 1964 July, “News and Comment: The Broad Street-Richmond line”, in Modern Railways, page 17:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
synonyms: epidemic
glosses: An outbreak or surge in problems; a spate, string, or trend.
Derived terms: word: beard rash
word: rashie
word: rashless
word: rashlike
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word: all over someone like a rash
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word: barber's rash
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word: bring out in a rash
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word: butterfly rash
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word: canker rash
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word: diaper rash
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word: Disney rash
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word: drug rash
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word: gum-rash
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word: hangar rash
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word: heat rash
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word: hiker's rash
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word: hot water bottle rash
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word: malar rash
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word: mud wrestler's rash
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word: napkin rash
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word: nappy rash
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word: nettle rash
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word: pash rash
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word: rash fever
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word: rashguard
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word: rash up
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word: rash vest
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word: reef rash
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word: rink rash
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word: road rash
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word: rose rash
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word: scarlet rash
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word: stubble rash
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word: summer rash
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word: sweat rash
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word: tooth rash
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word: viral rash