pimple
a small, usually inflammatory swelling or elevation of the skin; papule or pustule.
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How to use pimple in a sentence
Preparing for the lift meant digging several feet of soil all around the hoard, leaving it sticking out like a plaster-wrapped pimple in the rocky trench.
How Scotland forged a rare alliance between amateur treasure hunters and archaeologists | Corinne Iozzio | August 24, 2021 | Popular-ScienceMany of the bites appear to be grouped on the skin like “little pimple bites that itch like crazy,” Suah said.
Oak-mite bites: Cicadas may have left D.C. region an itchy gift | Ellie Silverman | July 30, 2021 | Washington PostSo just keeping up with my routine and knowing that sometimes I get stubborn pimples, I need something to kind of zap it.
Chloe & Halle On Their Partnership With Neutrogena And Being Without A Manicure In Quarantine | Brande Victorian | March 12, 2021 | Essence.comGetting a pimple on the morning of the prom can be life and death for a teenager.
How to Write Groundhog Day: 10 Rules for Screenwriters | Danny Rubin | October 20, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST“I think this is a pimple on the ass of progress,” said the senior adviser.
Smith screwed his face and squeezed a pimple on his throat; Steelman absently counted the flies on the wall.
Over the Sliprails | Henry LawsonThe pimple is a diminutive hill or pock, and the pykes of Cumberland are the peaks of Derbyshire.
Archaic England | Harold BayleyTo have a rifle is as ridiculous as to have a pimple at the end of your nose, or a bailiff waiting for you round the corner.
The Evolution of Sinn Fein | Robert Mitchell HenryPustule, pus′tūl, n. a small pimple containing pus: anything like a pustule, on plants or animals: a small blister.
He examines and refreshes his complexion by it, and is more dejected at a pimple than if it were a cancer.
Thackerayana | William Makepeace Thackeray
British Dictionary definitions for pimple
/ (ˈpɪmpəl) /
a small round usually inflamed swelling of the skin
any of the bumps on the surface of a table tennis bat
Origin of pimple
1Derived forms of pimple
- pimpled, adjective
- pimply, adjective
- pimpliness, noun
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Other Idioms and Phrases with pimple
see goose pimples.
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