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pock
[ pok ]
noun
- a pustule on the body in an eruptive disease, as smallpox.
- a mark or spot left by or resembling such a pustule.
- a small indentation, pit, hole, or the like.
- Scot. poke 2.
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Derived Forms
- ˈpocky, adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pock1
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Example Sentences
The pock-marked ridges in the distance are covered with the advancing waves of field-grey forms.
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.
A broad-shouldered, pock-marked man, with sandy hair and small grey eyes, entered.
The pimple is a diminutive hill or pock, and the pykes of Cumberland are the peaks of Derbyshire.
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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