pimple

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The infection generally starts as a small red bump that looks like a pimple, a boil or a spider bite.

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  1. noun A small swelling of the skin, usually caused by acne; a papule or pustule.

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  • You will only need to apply this blend on your pimple area, leave it for the whole night, and sponge down exactly in the next morning. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Unfortunately, we live our life in public, so any weight gain or pimple is a national story. —  Right Celebrity
  • That totals 410 "you knows," quite normal for a pimple-faced elementary school brat in need of a crash course in remedial English before graduating to high school, but hardly what one would expect from a serious candidate to replace Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton as New York ` s junior member in the —  The Student Operated Press
  • In the early stages, a staph infection resembles a spider bite or a pimple.
  • Bacteria then breeds in the mix causing an inflammation or irritation which we see as a pimple. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
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  1. Middle English.

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  1. Early modern English also pimpel, pumple; from Middle English *pimpel (?) (not found), perhaps a nasalized form of Anglo-Saxon *pipel, a pimple, blister, found only in the rare verb piplian, pypelian, blister, grow pimply, used only in present participle pipligende, pypelgende, pimply, apparently from Latin papula, a blister, pimple: see papula. For the form, cf. Middle Dutch pimpel, pepel, a butterfly, from Latin papilio, a butterfly. The alleged Anglo-Saxon *pinpel, a pimple (Lye), is an error for winpel, a wimple. The W. pwmp, a knob, bump (see bump), and F. pompette, a pimple, are not connected.
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