pimple

English

Etymology

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

• pĭm'p(ə)l
• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪmp(ə)l/

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• Rhymes: -ɪmpəl

Noun

Wikipedia

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!

Synonyms

• acker (old Aus slang)
• acne
• pustule
• spot (British slang)
• zit (US slang)

Related terms

• pimpled
• pimply

Translations

inflamed spot on the surface of the skin

• Albanian: puçërr
• Arabic: بثرة f (báṯra)

  Egyptian Arabic: حبة f (ḥaba)

• Armenian: պզուկ (pzuk)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: прышч m (pryšč), вугар m (vúhar), вугор m (vuhór)
• Bulgarian: пъпка (bg) f (pǎ̀pka), пъпчица f (pǎpčica)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: bua f, buba f
• Cebuano: bugas
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 疙瘩 (zh) (gēda), 丘疹 (zh) (qiūzhěn)

• Czech: uher m
• Danish: filipens
• Dutch: puist (nl) f, pukkel
• Esperanto: akno
• Finnish: näppy (fi), finni (fi), märkänäppylä
• French: bouton (fr) m, pustule (fr) f
• Georgian: მუწუკი (mucuki)
• German: Pickel (de) m, Oas n (Bavaria)
• Greek: σπυρί (el) n (spyrí), σπυράκι (el) n (spyráki)
• Hebrew: פצעון
• Hindi: मुंहासा m (munhāsā)
• Hungarian: pattanás (hu)
• Icelandic: nabbi m, bóla (is) f, graftarbóla (is) f
• Ilocano: kamuro
• Irish: goirín m
• Italian: pustola (it), pustoletta, brufolo m, foruncoloso m
• Japanese: 面皰 (ja) (にきび, níkibi), 丘疹 (きゅうしん, kyūshin)
• Kazakh: безеу (bezew)
• Khmer: មុន (km) (mŭn)

• Korean: 여드름 (ko) (yeodeureum)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: pustula f
• Latvian: pūte f
• Lithuanian: spuogas m
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: kiritona, para, mariao
• Mongolian: батга (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
• Polish: pryszcz (pl) m, krosta (pl) f
• Portuguese: borbulha (pt) f, espinha (pt) f
• Romanian: coș (ro)
• Russian: прыщ (ru) m (pryšč), прыщик (ru) m (prýščik), угорь (ru) m (úgorʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: pluc m
• Serbo-Croatian: бубуљица f, bubuljica (sh) f, пришт m, prišt (sh) m
• Sicilian: brufulu (scn) m
• Slovene: pustula f
• Spanish: espinilla (es) f
• Swedish: finne (sv) c
• Tagalog: tagihawat
• Thai: สิว (th) (sĭw)
• Turkish: sivilce (tr)
• Ukrainian: прищ m (pryšč), вугор m (vúhor)
• Vietnamese: mụn nhọt
• Waray-Waray: punggod
• Welsh: tosyn m
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

annoying person

• Dutch: etter (nl) m, puistenkop m, ellendeling (nl) m
• French: casse-couilles (fr) m
• Greek: κακό σπυρί n (kakó spyrí)

• Maori: pōrearea
• Russian: негодяй (ru) m (negodjáj)
• Spanish: pendejo (es) m

See also

• blackhead
• whitehead