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pimple

Pronunciation: /ˈpɪmp(ə)l/

The English word “pimple” has 5 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. An inflamed (raised and colored) spot on the surface of the skin that is usually painful and fills with pus.
  2. An annoying person.
  3. Scotch (whisky)

verb

  1. To mark, cover or disfigure (something) as with pimples.
  2. To develop pimples.

Etymology

Early Modern English pimple, pumple, from Middle English pymple, pympyl, of uncertain origin but probably a nasalized variant of Old English *pipel, *pypel, from Old English piplian, pyplian (“to break out in pimples, show eruptions”), probably related to Latin papula (“pimple, pustule”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pap- (“pock mark, nipple”)). Akin to Old English pipliġende (“having shingles”).

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