pimple

Meanings

Noun

• An inflamed (raised and colored) spot on the surface of the skin that is usually painful and fills with pus.
• An annoying person.
• Scotch

Verb

• To develop pimples

Related

Similar words

• acker
• acne
• pustule
• spot
• zit

Origin

• Early Modern English pimple, pumple, from Middle English pymple, pympyl, of Unknown but probably a nasalized variant of Old English *pipel, *pypel, from Old English piplian, pyplian, probably related to Latin papula ("pimple, pustule") (from Proto-Indo-European *pap-). Akin to Old English pipliġende ("having shingles").