small pox
Noun
Meaning
small pox (uncountable)
Obsolete spelling of smallpox
small-pox
Obsolete spelling of smallpox
Alternative names
small-pox
Synonyms
Examples
Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.
It is not right to ask a man with elephantiasis of the scrotum to take on small pox as well, when thousands of other people have not had even their share of small diseases.