Well-nigh vanished diseases reappeared; one old woman was affected with leprosy, another was, covered with impetiginous lichen like a tree which has rotted in the shade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2] Reference

Pinner is a policeman; ah-dudda is an elastic and hard-worked adjective meaning (as P.M. Roget so neatly puts it) "dirty, filthy, nasty, squalid, gross, impetiginous, shameful, pernicious, sinister or mephitic.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Try Anything Twice] Reference