English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Early Modern English pimple, pumple (not found in Middle English), probably a nasalised variation of Old English piplian, pyplian "to break out in pimples, show erruptions". Akin to Old English pipliġende "having shingles".
Pronunciation [edit]
Wikipedia pimple (plural pimples)
- 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.
- (slang) An annoying person.
- He's such a pimple! I wish he'd stop being so irritating!
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Translations [edit]
inflamed spot on the surface of the skin
- Albanian: puçërr (sq)
- Arabic: بثرة (ar) (báṯra) f
- Egyptian Arabic: حبة (ḥaba) f
- Armenian: պզուկ (pəzuk)
- Basque: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: прышч (be) (pryšč) m , вугар (be) (vúhar) m , вугор (be) (vuhór) m
- Bulgarian: пъпка (bg) (pǎ̀pka) f , пъпчица (bg) (pǎpčica) f
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: bua (ca) f, buba (ca) f
- Cebuano: bugas
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 疙瘩 (cmn) (gēda), 丘疹 (cmn) (qiūzhěn)
- Czech: uher (cs) m
- Danish: filipens (da)
- Dutch: puist (nl) f, pukkel (nl)
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: näppy (fi), finni (fi), märkänäppylä (fi)
- French: bouton (fr) m, pustule (fr) f
- Georgian: მუწუკი (ka) (mucuki)
- German: Pickel (de) m, Oas (de) n (Bavaria)
- Greek: σπυρί (el) (spyri) n , σπυράκι (el) (spyráki) n
- Hebrew: פצעון (he)
- Hindi: मुंहासा (hi) (munhāsā) m
- Hungarian: pattanás (hu)
- Icelandic: nabbi (is) m, bóla (is) f, graftarbóla (is) f
- Ilocano: kamuro
- Irish: goirín (ga) m
- Italian: pustola, pustoletta, brufolo m, foruncoloso m
- Japanese: 面皰 (ja) (にきび, níkibi), 丘疹 (ja) (きゅうしん, kyūshin)
- Kazakh: безеу (kk) (bezew)
- Khmer: មុន (km) (mŭn)
- Korean: 여드름 (ko) (yeodeureum)
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