Can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)

Usage examples of syph.

Dox had ordered the other Hatchling, a deviate named Syph, to stand guard at the top of the cliffs for a while to insure no one was on their trail.

Ernest Hemingway said that syph was the occupational disease of bullfighters and soldiers.

As a deepsea sailor Jack Malloy had had the clap six times-- The syph never, knock on wood.

I know about his extortion deal with the fed reports, and about the syph and the whorehouse in Watts.

Jojohn was very mean and keen and wiry and had specialized in like Sexual Assault, and The Doctor had pretended to be able to cure syph and gon and gleet but he had only injected water, also he had killed off two devotchkas instead, like he had promised, of getting rid of their unwanted loads for them.

LAC Harvey of the Motor Transport, whose promotion had been blocked by a stiff dose of the Syph in India, which lent him much prestige.