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pimple
[ pim-puhl ]
noun
- a small, usually inflammatory swelling or elevation of the skin; papule or pustule.
pimple
/ ˈpɪmpəl /
noun
- a small round usually inflamed swelling of the skin
- any of the bumps on the surface of a table tennis bat
Derived Forms
- ˈpimpliness, noun
- ˈpimply, adjective
- ˈpimpled, adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of pimple1
Word History and Origins
Origin of pimple1
Idioms and Phrases
see goose pimples .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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