Pimple

Noun

 * 1) An 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.
 * 1)  An annoying person.
 * He's such a pimple! I wish he'd stop being so irritating!

Synonyms

 * acker (old Aus slang)
 * acne
 * pustule
 * spot (British slang)
 * zit (US slang)

Related terms

 * pimpled
 * pimply

Thesaurus
abscess, aposteme, bed sore, birthmark, blackhead, blain, bleb, blemish, blister, boil, boss, bubo, bulla, bump, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, check, chilblain, cicatrix, coarsen, cold sore, colophon, comedo, concavity, convexity, corn, crack, crater, craze, cyst, dactylogram, dactylograph, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, dent, dilatation, dilation, dint, disfiguration, disfigurement, distension, distortion, dot, edema, embossment, eruption, eschar, excrescence, fault, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fingerprint, fistula, flaw, footmark, footprint, footstep, fossil footprint, freckle, furuncle, furunculus, gathering, gnarl, granulate, gumboil, hemangioma, hemorrhoids, hickey, horripilate, ichnite, ichnolite, impress, impression, imprint, indent, indentation, indention, intumescence, keloid, kibe, kink, knob, lentigo, lesion, lump, milium, mole, needle scar, nevus, pad, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, paw print, pawmark, petechia, piles, pit, pock, pockmark, polyp, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, print, pug, pugmark, pustule, rift, rising, rough, rough up, roughen, scab, scar, scratch, seal, sebaceous cyst, sigil, signet, soft chancre, sore, speckle, split, spot, sprinkle, stamp, step, stigma, strawberry mark, stud, sty, suppuration, swell, swelling, swollenness, thumbmark, thumbprint, track, tubercle, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, twist, ulcer, ulceration, verruca, vesicle, vestige, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, wheal, whelk, whitehead, whitlow, wound

Etymology
Early Modern English pimple, pumple (not found in ), probably a nasalised variation of piplian, pyplian "to break out in pimples, show erruptions". Akin to pipliġende "having shingles".

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: պզուկ (pəzuk)
 * Bulgarian: пъпка, пъпчица
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cebuano: bugas
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: filipens
 * Dutch:, pukkel
 * Finnish:, , märkänäppylä
 * French: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:, Oas
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: פצעון
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: nabbi, bóla, graftarbóla
 * Ilocano: kamuro
 * Irish: goirín
 * Italian: pustola, pustoletta, brufolo, foruncoloso
 * Japanese: 面皰,
 * Kazakh: безеу
 * Khmer: (mŭn)
 * Japanese: 面皰,
 * Kazakh: безеу
 * Khmer: (mŭn)


 * Korean: 여드름
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: pūte
 * Lithuanian: spuogas
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Okinawan:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: pryszcz
 * Portuguese: borbulha,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: бубуљица,
 * Sicilian: brufulu
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tagihawat
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: mụn nhọt
 * Waray-Waray: punggod
 * Welsh: tosyn
 * Vietnamese: mụn nhọt
 * Waray-Waray: punggod
 * Welsh: tosyn


 * Dutch: etter, puistenkop , ellendeling
 * French:
 * Greek: κακό σπυρί (kako spyri)


 * Russian:
 * Spanish: