pimple

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a small inflamed raised spot on the skin, often containing pus

   A painful pimple appeared on his chin before the interview.

From early modern English pimple or pumple and Middle English pymple. Its origin is uncertain, but it may be a nasalized relative of an Old English word for a skin eruption and may ultimately be connected with Latin papula ("pimple, pustule").

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