OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 27215

Adam's apple

Meanings (ES + gloss)
bocado de Adán • manzana de Adán • nuez • nuez de Adán
The lump in the throat, usually more noticeable in men than in women; the laryngeal prominence.
He was seated some way down a table at right angles to the one at which I sat, a man of mean appearance with a greyish complexion, thin, with a square nose, a heavy wiry moustache…
That same bunch which is seen on the foreside of the Neck, is called Adams Apple, because the common people have a beliefe, that by the judgement of God, a part of that fatal Apple…
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