English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Early Modern English pimple, pumple, from Middle English pymple, pympyl, of uncertain origin but probably a nasalized variant of Old English *pipel, *pypel, from Old English piplian, pyplian (“to break out in pimples, show eruptions”), probably related to Latin papula (“pimple, pustule”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pap- (“pock mark, nipple”)). Akin to Old English pipliġende (“having shingles”).
Pronunciation[edit]
pimple (plural pimples)
- (dermatology) 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!
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Scotch (whisky)
- Synonym: pimple and blotch
Synonyms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
inflamed spot on the surface of the skin
- Albanian: puçërr (sq)
- Arabic: بَثْرَة f (baṯra)
- Egyptian Arabic: حبة f (ḥaba)
- Armenian: պզուկ (hy) (pzuk)
- Basque: oilaur
- Belarusian: прышч m (pryšč), ву́гар m (vúhar), вуго́р m (vuhór)
- Bikol Central: punggod (bcl)
- Breton: burbu (br)
- Bulgarian: пъ́пка (bg) f (pǎ́pka), пъ́пчица f (pǎ́pčica)
- Burmese: ဝက်ခြံ (my) (wakhkram)
- Catalan: bua (ca) f, buba f
- Cebuano: bugas
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 疙瘩 (zh) (gēda), 丘疹 (zh) (qiūzhěn)
- Croatian: prišt m
- Czech: uher m, pupínek m
- Danish: filipens, bums (da) c
- Dutch: puist (nl) f, pukkel (nl)
- Esperanto: akno, aknero
- Estonian: vistrik
- Finnish: näppy (fi), finni (fi), märkänäppylä
- French: bouton (fr) m, pustule (fr) f
- Galician: espiña (gl) f, gran (gl) m
- Georgian: მუწუკი (muc̣uḳi)
- German: Pickel (de) m, Oas n (Bavaria)
- Greek: σπυρί (el) n (spyrí), σπυράκι (el) n (spyráki)
- Hebrew: פִּצְעוֹן (pitson)
- Hindi: मुंहासा m (mũhāsā), फुड़िया (hi) f (phuṛiyā), स्फोटिका (hi) f (sphoṭikā), फुंसी (hi) f (phunsī)
- Hungarian: pattanás (hu)
- Hunsrik: Spingje f
- Icelandic: nabbi m, bóla (is) f, graftarbóla (is) f
- Ilocano: kamuro
- Indonesian: jerawat (id)
- Irish: goirín m
- Italian: pustola (it), pustoletta, brufolo (it) m, foruncolo (it) m
- Japanese: 面皰 (ja) (にきび, níkibi), 丘疹 (きゅうしん, kyūshin)
- Kapampangan: punggod, dilyawat
- Kazakh: безеу (bezeu)
- Khmer: មុន (km) (mun)
- Korean: 여드름 (ko) (yeodeureum)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: زیپکە (zîpke)
- Northern Kurdish: pizik (ku) f
- Kyrgyz: ысык (ky) (ısıq), безетки (ky) (bezetki)
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- Lao: ສິວ (siu)
- Latin: pustula f, papula f
- Latvian: pūte f
- Lezgi: твар (t°ar)
- Lithuanian: spuogas m
- Macedonian: бубула f (bubula)
- Maguindanao: pamenus
- Malayalam: കുരു (ml) (kuru)
- Maltese: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: kiritona, para, mariao, huahua, mokamoka
- Mongolian: батга (mn) (batga)
- Norwegian: kvise (no) c
- Okinawan: にくん (nikun)
- Old English: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: جوش (fa) (juš)
- Pitjantjatjara: please add this translation if you can
- Plautdietsch: Pekjel m
- Polish: pryszcz (pl) m inan, krosta (pl) f
- Portuguese: borbulha (pt) f, espinha (pt) f
- Prakrit: 𑀨𑁄𑀟𑀺𑀬𑀸 f (phoḍiyā)
- Quechua: cupu
- Romanian: coș (ro)
- Russian: прыщ (ru) m (pryšč), пры́щик (ru) m (prýščik), у́горь (ru) m (úgorʹ), па́пула (ru) f (pápula), пупы́рышек (ru) m (pupýryšek)
- Sanskrit: स्फोटिका (sa) f (sphoṭikā)
- Scottish Gaelic: pluc m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: бубуљица f, пришт m
- Roman: bubuljica (sh) f, prišt (sh) m
- Sicilian: cocciu (scn) m, cucciteḍḍu m, pàpula (scn) f
- Slovak: pupienok m
- Slovene: pustula f
- Spanish: espinilla (es) f, grano (es) m
- Swedish: finne (sv) c
- Tagalog: tagihawat, katil (very itchy)
- Tajik: гармича (tg) (garmiča), рихинак (rixinak)
- Thai: สิว (th) (sǐu)
- Tibetan: ཐོར་པ (thor pa)
- Turkish: sivilce (tr), sızanak (tr)
- Ukrainian: прищ m (pryšč), вуго́р m (vuhór)
- Uzbek: boʻjama (uz)
- Vietnamese: mụn nhọt (vi), mụn (vi)
- Waray-Waray: punggod
- Welsh: tosyn m, ploryn m, pigodyn m
- Yiddish: פּרישטש m (prishtsh)
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See also[edit]
pimple (third-person singular simple present pimples, present participle pimpling, simple past and past participle pimpled)
- To develop pimples
References[edit]
Spanish[edit]
pimple
- inflection of pimplar:
- first-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
