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pimple

[ pim-puhl ]

noun

, Pathology.
  1. a small, usually inflammatory swelling or elevation of the skin; papule or pustule.


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


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Derived Forms

  • ˈpimpliness, noun
  • ˈpimply, adjective
  • ˈpimpled, adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of pimple1

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

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Word History and Origins

Origin of pimple1

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

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Idioms and Phrases

see goose pimples .

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Example Sentences

Getting a pimple on the morning of the prom can be life and death for a teenager.

“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.

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

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.

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.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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