pockmark

English

Etymology

From pock +‎ mark.

Noun

pockmark (plural pockmarks)

1. A mark or scar in the skin caused by a pock.
   • 1883, Charlotte M[ary] Yonge, “Whitehall before the Cobwebs”, in Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 4:

     When we were quite well and tolerably free from pock-marks [from smallpox], my father took us to London with him, […]

2. A crater in the seafloor caused by erupting gas or liquid.

Derived terms

• pockmarked

Translations

mark or scar

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 麻子 (zh) (mázi)

• Finnish: rokonarpi
• French: marque de petite vérole f
• German: Pockennarbe (de) f
• Hungarian: himlőhely (hu)
• Italian: buttero (it) m
• Japanese: 痘痕 (ja) (あばた, abata)
• Manchu: ᠮᠠᠰᡝ (mase)
• Maori: koroputaputa
• Russian: о́спина (ru) f (óspina), ря́бина (ru) f (rjábina)
• Swedish: grop (sv) (figurative), koppärr (sv)
• Turkish: çopur (tr)