pimple

[ pim-puhl ]
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nounPathology.
  1. a small, usually inflammatory swelling or elevation of the skin; papule or pustule.

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Origin of pimple

1
1350–1400; Middle English, nasalized variant of Old English *pypel (whence pyplian to break out in pimples) <Latin papula pimple

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How to use pimple in a sentence

  • Smith screwed his face and squeezed a pimple on his throat; Steelman absently counted the flies on the wall.

    Over the Sliprails | Henry Lawson
  • The pimple is a diminutive hill or pock, and the pykes of Cumberland are the peaks of Derbyshire.

    Archaic England | Harold Bayley
  • To 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 Henry
  • Pustule, 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

pimple

/ (ˈpɪmpəl) /


noun
  1. a small round usually inflamed swelling of the skin

  2. any of the bumps on the surface of a table tennis bat

Origin of pimple

1
C14: related to Old English pipilian to break out in spots; compare Latin papula pimple

Derived forms of pimple

  • pimpled, adjective
  • pimply, adjective
  • pimpliness, noun

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Other Idioms and Phrases with pimple

pimple

see goose pimples.

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