pimple

Early Modern English pimple, pumple, from Middle English pymple, pympyl, probably a nasalized variation of Old English *pipel, *pypel, from Old English piplian, pyplian (“to break out in pimples, show eruptions”). Akin to Old English pipliġende (“having shingles”).

• enPR: pĭm'p(ə)l
• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪmp(ə)l/

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• Rhymes: -ɪmpəl

pimple (plural pimples)

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.

2. (slang) An annoying person.

   He's such a pimple! I wish he'd stop being so irritating!

• acker (old Australian slang)
• acne
• pustule
• spot (UK, slang)
• zit (US, slang)

• pimpled
• pimply

• blackhead
• whitehead

pimple (third-person singular simple present pimples, present participle pimpling, simple past and past participle pimpled)

1. To develop pimples

pimple

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of pimplar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of pimplar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of pimplar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of pimplar.