ichor
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- noun
- /ˈaɪkər/
- NSFW
- "Each statement was punctuated with quick jabs of claw and barb, each of which produced spurts of ichor.
- yellow ichor
Examples
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The mat was becoming slick with alien blood, ichor, and slobber, making footing difficult.
Fiction book (2002) -
She recoiled as the ichor from the ulcer dripped onto the floor, releasing an unpleasant odor.
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Blood and black ichor gush from the wound, and he bellows with pain.
Fiction book (1990) -
Their serpents lay still beside them, greenish ichor seeping from their bodies into the ground.
Fiction book (1993) -
The Flenser looked at the crowd, looked at the Addlemon dripping ichor all over the mat, and then glanced to where the battered Win had landed, ten rows up.
Fiction book (2002) -
And here he thrust at Gorlen a fresh phib skin, still limp and wet with ichor, smelling far fishier than the dried hides hanging throughout the apartment.
Fiction book (1995) -
Overall, I would say that Obama did a pretty good job deflecting the fact that his sorry sack-o-socialist anti-American ichor (puss) stared bug-eyed while our ambassador was killed.
Blog text (1) -
Poe's gory details, which at one point include a description of Valdemar's eyes leaking a "profuse outflowing of a yellowish ichor," are played for comic effect in Jaroudi's short.
Blog text (33) -
After the accident, the doctor noted a foul-smelling discharge, which was a yellow ichor seeping from the wound.
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The old wound on his leg began to leak a thick, rancid ichor, indicating a possible infection.
Synonyms
A thin smelly liquid that comes from an infected wound
How Thick
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ichor now means a thin, often foul 'discharge' from a wound. It originally came from Greek ἰχώρ, the 'blood' of the gods, and people later used the word for strange body fluids, which is why doctors sometimes call bad wound fluid ichor.