foot-and-mouth disease

foot-and-mouth disease (uncountable)

1. (medicine) A highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral disease that can affect animals with cloven hooves.
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co.; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483:

     Episode 12, The Cyclops

     So Joe starts telling the citizen about the foot and mouth disease and the cattle traders and taking action in the matter and the citizen sending them all to the rightabout and Bloom coming out with his sheepdip for the scab and a hoose drench for coughing calves and the guaranteed remedy for timber tongue.

• foot-in-mouth disease