pimple
English
/ˈpɪmp(ə)l/
noun
Definitions
- An inflamed (raised and colored) spot on the surface of the skin that is usually painful and fills with pus.
- (slang) An annoying person.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Scotch whisky
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English pymple inherited from Old English *pipel, piplian derived from Proto-Indo-European *pap- (pock mark, nipple).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*pap-
Gloss
pock mark, nipple
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- back English
- bepimpled English
- papula English
- pimpleback English
- pimpled English
- pimplelike English
- pimpliness English
- pimply English
- unpimpled English
- papula Latin
- papula Italian
- *pap- Proto-Indo-European
- *pipel Old English
- piplian Old English
- pymple Middle English