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Pock

//pɒk// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A pus-filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease.
  2. 2
    a pustule in an eruptive disease wordnet
  3. 3
    Any pit, especially one formed as a scar
Verb
  1. 1
    To scar or mark with pits

    "In and out of the tufts they went, with their eyes dilating; wishing to be out of harm, if conscience were but satisfied. And of this tufty flaggy ground, pocked with bogs and boglets, one especial nature is that it will not hold impressions."

  2. 2
    mark with a scar wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English pok, from Old English poc, pocc (“pock; pustule; ulcer”), from Proto-West Germanic *pokk, from Proto-Germanic *pukkaz, *pukkǭ (“pock; swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bʰew- (“to grow; swell”). Cognate with Dutch pok (“pock”), Low German Pocke (“pock”), German Pocke (“pock”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English pok, from Old English poc, pocc (“pock; pustule; ulcer”), from Proto-West Germanic *pokk, from Proto-Germanic *pukkaz, *pukkǭ (“pock; swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bʰew- (“to grow; swell”). Cognate with Dutch pok (“pock”), Low German Pocke (“pock”), German Pocke (“pock”).

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