pock

[ pok ]

noun

1. a pustule on the body in an eruptive disease, as smallpox.
2. a mark or spot left by or resembling such a pustule.
3. a small indentation, pit, hole, or the like.
4. Scot. poke ².

pock

/ pɒk /

noun

1. any pustule resulting from an eruptive disease, esp from smallpox
2. another word for pockmark

Derived Forms

• ˈpocky, adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of pock¹

before 1000; Middle English pokke, Old English poc; cognate with German Pocke; perhaps akin to Old English pocca. See poke ²

Word History and Origins

Origin of pock¹

Old English pocc; related to Middle Dutch pocke, perhaps to Latin bucca cheek

Example Sentences

The pock-marked ridges in the distance are covered with the advancing waves of field-grey forms.

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His skin was of so light a yellow color as to approximate to dirty white, and his face was pock-marked from neck to crown.

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A broad-shouldered, pock-marked man, with sandy hair and small grey eyes, entered.

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The pimple is a diminutive hill or pock, and the pykes of Cumberland are the peaks of Derbyshire.

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The doctor acted as his own lawyer, and the pock-marked man, whose name was Grimes, as the lawyer agin us.

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