blister

Meanings

Noun

• A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease or infection.
• A swelling on a plant.
• Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
• An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate.
• A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities.
• a cause of annoyance

Verb

• To raise blisters on.
• To have a blister form.
• To criticise severely.
• To break out in blisters.

Related

Similar words

• bleb
• blain
• vesicate

Origin

• From Middle English blister, from Old French blestre, from a Germanic source. Compare Middle Dutch blyster, Old Norse blastr.