chickenpox

See also: chicken pox

English

Noun

chickenpox (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of chicken pox
   • 2009 May 7, The New York Times, page A12:

     Chickenpox parties, at which children gather so they can all be infected by a child who has the pox, are often held by parents who distrust chickenpox vaccine or want their children to have the stronger immunity that surviving a full-blown infection affords.

   • 2014, Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Boom!:

     Not a rite-of-passage rash-and-fever, not a week eating ice cream on the sofa, this was not chickenpox but a biblical plague the month before he turned two, his skinny frame covered entire with pennysized bulbs sagging, fat with neon green pus, as though he had been mummified in bubble wrap, victim of the world's bees, skin around the pustules souffléd with red welts, coat of monstrous nipples.