salt-water itch

West

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a form of dermatitis caused by a fresh-water hydra encountered in certain sloughs on the prairie (def. 2a).

Quotations

1957

We slithered about on the surface, acquiring painful sunburns and bad cases of salt-water itch.