Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small swelling of the skin, usually caused by acne; a papule or pustule.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small inflammatory dermal tumor or swelling; a papule or pustule, such as are seen in acne.
- n. A little elevation or protuberance, of any kind, resembling a pimple.
- n. A jolly boon companion.
- To cover with pimples; cause to abound with pimples; spot or blotch as with pimples.
Wiktionary
- n. An inflamed (raised and colored) spot on the surface of the skin that is usually painful and fills with pus.
- n. slang An annoying person.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) Any small acuminated elevation of the cuticle, whether going on to suppuration or not.
- n. Fig.: A swelling or protuberance like a pimple.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne
Etymologies
- Early Modern English pimple, pumple (not found in Middle English), probably a nasalised variation of Old English piplian, pyplian "to break out in pimples, show erruptions". Akin to Old English pipliġende "having shingles". (Wiktionary)
- Middle English. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This then eventually swells forming a reddish mini-boil: this is what we call a pimple, acne or even blackheads.”
“Extractions of active acne whether it is the pustule type we call a pimple or a comedone, which we refer to as a blackhead are tricky and unnecessary and can be unsafe too.”
“The pimple was the first sign of flesh-eating necrotizing fasciitis; that player needed multiple surgeries and skin grafts before his infection healed.”
“= — There are many kinds of pimples, some of which partake almost of the nature of ulcers, which require medical treatment; but the small red pimple, which is most common, may be removed by applying the following twice a day: Sulphur water, one ounce; acetated liquid of ammonia, one-quarter ounce; liquor of potassa, one grain; white wine vinegar, two ounces; distilled water, two ounces.”
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“| Reply | Permalink for the record, I said 'pimple', not 'pimp'.”
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“Blood flow remains normal until the plaque "pimple" ruptures.”
“By the turn of the century, Junod could write that Knobneusen was no longer even an appropriate name for the Transvaal Tsonga because "pimple" tattooing had ceased to be practiced in that area, although the scarification of women's chests and "waists" was still widespread.”
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“If you have some kind of pimple that isn't looking right or some kind of little boil on your skin, don't just put a band-aid on it and figure it will be okay.”
“He told me to watch for signs of infection, including a "pimple" on the gums above the tooth.”
“Well, of course don't go by what I say because your pediatric dentist has actually seen the child, but if there is a "pimple", yup it's probably abscessed, festering there.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pimple’.
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• Little pains in my butt
Annoying, little, things. In a single word.
psoriasis, interjections, sultriness, spam, mice, mosquitoes, dust, mould, ipod, pimple, blister, sliver and 93 more...
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•Public List: Pommelions and Papermills
Started on pommelion--a place for all those words that feature P, then M, then L inside them. Somewhere.
pommelion, papermill, pimple, pemoline, pall mall, pell-mell, peppermill, paleomammalogy, philomelian, pummel, pimpernel, pimpmobile and 32 more...
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VNCle
N stands for 'nasal', not 'n'
pimple, bungle, spindle, handle, amble, humble, simple, dimple, winkle, tinkle, single, dingle and 53 more...
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LWC's Words
spork, heteroskedasticity, kurtosis, eigenspace, smithian, skewness, montanan, whoremonger, mellifluous, fishwife, papist, romanist and 142 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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Words I have to learn
exasperate, felony, weld, fraud, worksheet, ransom, rehearse, preliminary, offshore, parole, infamous, sieve and 436 more...
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Words I like
This is a list of my favourite words (phrases) in english, as a second language. I love them mostly because of how they sound and their meaning.
ninja, cookie, skill, zip, plentiful, digg, debris, pancake, cucumber, fetch, pot, backpack and 461 more...
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vinyl's Words
deliverator, finna, metric fuckton, fag, hyphy, ginormous, sacrilicious, fantabulous, macaca, n-word, pterodactyl, genious and 560 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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Words that are fun to say
stipple, carbuncle, dongle, exemplar, misbegotten, gigolo, salubrious, jupiter, propinquity, piglet, tobogganing, supercilious and 309 more...
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I'd rather not say
words that grate on my nerves (mainly because of the way they sound, not what they mean)
yogurt, belly, asthma, spruce, daisy, rutabaga, petunia, toot, fecal, oodles, pansy, buddy and 20 more...
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ugly
anal, anus, pimple, zit, hack, spit, crayon, umbilical, membrane, fissure, toady, penis and 20 more...
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Random as Possible
just be random
wombat, nargles, isn't it with a g, gnargles, gargle, rawr, lion, kipper, tea, english, no, it's nargles ..., moo and 68 more...
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Words To Hate
moist, beancounter, leverage, higgledy-piggledy, rigamarole, meaty, burgeoning, dainty, buffering, void, new-fangled, festive and 13 more...
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least favorite words
jammies, engorged, tummy, pustule, crotch, plop, fecund, panties, nostril, belly, pimple, hon
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