pock

From Middle English pok, from Old English poc, pocc (“pock; pustule; ulcer”), from Proto-Germanic *pukkaz, *pukkǭ (“pock; swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bʰew- (“to grow; swell”). Cognate with Dutch pok (“pock”), Low German Pocke (“pock”), German Pocke (“pock”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɒk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɑk/

  Rhymes: -ɒk

pock (plural pocks)

1. A pus-filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease.
2. Any pit, especially one formed as a scar

• pockmark
• pox

pock (third-person singular simple present pocks, present participle pocking, simple past and past participle pocked)

1. To scar or mark with pits
   • 2007 February 23, Greg Myre, “Palestinian Universities Dragged Into Factional Clashes”, in New York Times‎:

     Just next door, at Al Azhar University, a rocket mangled the protective metal bars as it crashed through the windows of the president’s office this month, destroying his desk and pocking his walls with shrapnel.