Crossword clues for pimple
pimple
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pimple \Pim"ple\, n. [AS. p[=i]pelian to blister; cf. L. papula pimple.]
(Med.) Any small acuminated elevation of the cuticle, whether going on to suppuration or not. ``All eyes can see a pimple on her nose.''
--Pope.Fig.: A swelling or protuberance like a pimple. ``A pimple that portends a future sprout.''
--Cowper.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c. (early 14c. as a surname), of unknown origin; perhaps related to Old English pipligende "having shingles;" also compare Latin papula, papilla (see pap (n.2)). As a verb from c.1600. Related: Pimples.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An inflamed (raised and colored) spot on the surface of the skin that is usually painful and fills with pus. 2 (context slang English) An annoying person. vb. To develop pimples
WordNet
n. a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne [syn: hickey]
Wikipedia
A pimple, zit or spot is a kind of comedo and one of the many results of excess oil getting trapped in the pores. Some of the varieties are pustules or papules. Pimples can be treated by various acne medications prescribed by a physician, or purchased at a pharmacy with a wide variety of treatments.
A pimple is a swollen spot on the skin.
Pimple may also refer to:
- The Pimple, a mountain in Antarctica
- Pimple Creek, a river in Florida
- Pimple Hill, a summit in Pennsylvania
- Pimple Hills, a mountain range in New Jersey
Usage examples of "pimple".
Ploughed-up trenches, blindages looking like pimples, and gun emplacements now nothing but heaps of logs and bricks.
For some reason, she recalled that in the anatomical museum she had seen a model of the face of a man who had suffered from lupus: a face scarred by bluish furrows and pimples, with irregular, corroded lips, eyebrows in small clumps, and red eyelids without eyelashes.
I had already answered that she could not get rid of the pimples on her face in less than a week, but that a year of diet would be necessary to effect a radical cure.
She then shewed me all the questions which she had already prepared on different subjects, and particularly those relating to the cure of her pimples.
Pedar was addicted to jook, a squalid drug whose effects include inflamed eyes and irritability as well as bleeding gums, pimples, and even hallucinations.
The rounded dome stood out on the pocky skin of the surface like the ugly pimple it was.
As they dressed in the fashionable pre-century style, just so they had kept old-fashioned unsightlinesses, of teeth in the case of Saume, warts and pimples in the case of Leibiche.
Ser Ryman is next in line, and then Edwyn and Black Walder and Petyr Pimple.
Like a rusty red pimple, the cab of the junked truck stuck out of the base of the twenty-five-foot-high berm wall, facing the highway south.
Under the trays of cold light his complexion was splotchy and dappled with the angry red spots of pimples just coming up.
I sure as hell do not have to take it from an undropped, too-young-to-shave little pimple like you!
I had already answered that she could not get rid of the pimples on her face in less than a week, but that a year of diet would be necessary to effect a radical cure.
From time to time, in the hot weather, he might develop a pimple in the fleshiest part, but that was it.
Brogan Wilmington can recover his balance, the beautiful picks up what is left of her lobster Newburg, plate and all, and clops Brogan on the pimple with it and knocks him plumb out onto the dance floor where many parties, male and female, are doing the rumba with great zest.
But the next day a few pimples reappeared on her beautiful complexion, and I received an order to repair at once to the Palais-Royal.