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pimply

[ pim-plee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, pim·pli·er, pim·pli·est.

Origin of pimply¹

First recorded in 1740–50; pimple + -y ¹

It is for the power of stirring, goose-pimply rhetoric that makes those who are privileged to hear it swoon in rapture.

A pimply-faced office boy elbowed him out of it and the man turned away meekly.

Over the last three miles of the day's journey the surface was raised in large, pimply masses surrounded by wide fissures.

The nice new house was expecting them, and a cheeky, pimply German page-boy took their packages up.

When the storm subsided, the pimply-faced man was voted to the chair, and the conversation became more reasonable.

It did so after considerable delay, and a pimply boy in knee pants showed me upstairs into the waiting-room.

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