English Dictionary

shoddy fever

名詞

廃用 不可算名詞

(obsolete) A febrile disease characterized by dyspnea and bronchitis, caused by inhaling dust or mold.

日本語の意味

塵やカビの吸入によって引き起こされる、呼吸困難や気管支炎を伴う（旧式の呼称）発熱性疾患。

Several workers at the textile mill fell ill last winter with shoddy fever after prolonged exposure to moldy fibers, experiencing breathlessness and bronchitis.

先冬、織物工場の数人の作業員が、塵やカビの吸入で起こり呼吸困難と気管支炎を特徴とする発熱性の病気にかかり、カビの生えた繊維への長時間の暴露の後に体調を崩しました。

意味（1）

(obsolete) A febrile disease characterized by dyspnea and bronchitis, caused by inhaling dust or mold.

Twenty or thirty years ago, it was a common practice for the weavers and spinners to be called from their proper occupations to assist in blending, as the term is, and this without any remuneration, excepting a largess of beer to allay their thirst, and fortify them against the shoddy fever; thus these men had not such a direct interest in the work as to induce, or such an aptitude for it, as to enable them to do it well.