carbuncle• Yet they were covered in carbuncles and boils.• Karl Marx said that the bourgeoisie would suffer from the carbuncles that afflicted his buttocks as he composed Das Kapital.• This can be seen in the liquified, dead centre of the carbuncle.• A heap of bones, a wreckedcarbuncle.
Origincarbuncle
(1200-1300)Old FrenchLatincarbunculus“small piece of burning coal”, from carbo; → CARBON