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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).

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  • enPR: pĭm'p(ə)l, IPA(key): /ˈpɪmp(ə)l/
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  • Rhymes: -ɪmpəl

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pimple (plural pimples)

  1. (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.
  2. (slang) An annoying person.
    He's such a pimple! I wish he'd stop being so irritating!
  3. (Cockney rhyming slang) Scotch (whisky)
    Synonym: pimple and blotch

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pimple (third-person singular simple present pimples, present participle pimpling, simple past and past participle pimpled)

  1. To develop pimples

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pimple

  1. inflection of pimplar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative