pimple
An inflamed spot on the surface of the skin that is usually painful and fills with pusAn inflamed (raised and colored) spot on the surface of the skin that is usually painful and fills with pus.
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» I can't get rid of my pimples.
Я не могу избавиться от прыщей. — marafon
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3 sensesAn inflamed (raised and colored) spot on the surface of the skin that is usually painful and fills with pus.
I had to pop that embarrassing pimple, it was huge and red and on the tip of my nose.
Pickel, Oas, Wimmerl
прыщpryšč, пры́щикprýščik, у́горьúgorʹ
прищpryšč, вуго́рvuhór
(derogatory, slang)An annoying person.
He's such a pimple! I wish he'd stop being so irritating!
негодя́йnegodjáj
(Cockney, slang)Scotch (whisky)
- a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne
Origin
Early Modern English pimple, pumple, from Middle English pymple, pympyl, of uncertain origEarly Modern English pimple, pumple, from Middle English pymple, pympyl, of uncertain origin but probably a nasalized variant of Old English *pipel, *pypel, from Old English piplian, pyplian (“to break out in pimples, show eruptions”), probably related to Latin papula (“pimple, pustule”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pap- (“pock mark, nipple”)). Akin to Old English pipliġende (“having shingles”).
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