Neapolitan bone-ache

Neapolitan bone-ache
   syphilis
   The disease you caught from the Italians, if not the French or the Spanish:
    Vengeance on the whole camp or, rather, the Neopolitan bone-ache for that, methinks, is the curse... (Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida)
   Also as the Neopolitan favour.

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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