pock

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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.

  1. a small indentation, pit, hole, or the like.

  2. Scot. poke2.

Origin of pock

1
before 1000; Middle English pokke,Old English poc; cognate with German Pocke; perhaps akin to Old English pocca.See poke2

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British Dictionary definitions for pock

pock

/ (pɒk) /


noun
  1. any pustule resulting from an eruptive disease, esp from smallpox

  2. another word for pockmark (def. 1)

Origin of pock

1
Old English pocc; related to Middle Dutch pocke, perhaps to Latin bucca cheek

Derived forms of pock

  • pocky, adjective

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