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Definition of pock in English: pocknoun pɒkpɑk A pockmark. 痘痕，麻子 Example sentencesExamples - He was a strange-looking man, olived-skinned face marked with scars and pocks from unknown battles.
- Her head was bare again, and marked by tiny red pocks.
- The lesions resemble small pocks - tiny, pus-filled blisters most prominent on the face, arms and legs.
- Obtain a written, signed note from your physician, of take photographs of your children when the pocks have manifested.
- My pock had become so sore and troublesome ’, soldier Lemuel Roberts recalled, ‘that my clothes stuck fast to my body, especially to my feet; and it became a severe trial to my fortitude, to bear my disorder’.
- Marks from beatings criss-crossed his back, and deep pocks, apparently from electric shock burns, were gouged in his skin.
- Those infected, remain contagious until the last pock falls off - about 21 days.
Synonyms scar, pit, pitted scar, mark, blemish
Derivativesadjective pɒktpɑkt He thanked the medical staff who determined he had been poisoned, which caused him extreme internal pain and left his face pocked and grey. Example sentencesExamples - She was tall and deathly skinny, Asian, but with really pale acne pocked skin and black rimmed glasses that matched her long straight hair.
- Their sides were pocked and scarred.
- In the second part of Henry IV Barrit's Falstaff, his face pocked with sores and his body decaying, became a more grotesque, more disturbing but also more exuberant figure.
- In some places the stone is pocked and scarred by the corrosive effects of black sulphates.
adjective ˈpɒkiˈpɑki archaic Afflicted with pockmarks. he turned his pocky face toward us Example sentencesExamples - So this winter has been a constant deluge of flyers warning about weird rashes and red throats and pocky skin and the nasty stomach virus that wouldn't die.
- At Bury St Edmunds, Faith Wilson told her neighbour in 1619 to ‘pull up your muffler higher and hide your pocky face’.
OriginOld English poc 'pustule', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch pok and German Pocke. Compare with pox. Rhymesad hoc, amok, Bangkok, baroque, belle époque, bloc, block, bock, brock, chock, chock-a-block, clock, doc, dock, floc, flock, frock, hock, hough, interlock, jock, knock, langue d'oc, lock, Locke, Médoc, mock, nock, o'clock, post hoc, roc, rock, schlock, shock, smock, sock, Spock, stock, wok, yapok Definition of pock in US English: pocknounpɑkpäk A pockmark. 痘痕，麻子 Example sentencesExamples - Those infected, remain contagious until the last pock falls off - about 21 days.
- My pock had become so sore and troublesome ’, soldier Lemuel Roberts recalled, ‘that my clothes stuck fast to my body, especially to my feet; and it became a severe trial to my fortitude, to bear my disorder’.
- Marks from beatings criss-crossed his back, and deep pocks, apparently from electric shock burns, were gouged in his skin.
- Obtain a written, signed note from your physician, of take photographs of your children when the pocks have manifested.
- The lesions resemble small pocks - tiny, pus-filled blisters most prominent on the face, arms and legs.
- He was a strange-looking man, olived-skinned face marked with scars and pocks from unknown battles.
- Her head was bare again, and marked by tiny red pocks.
Synonyms scar, pit, pitted scar, mark, blemish
OriginOld English poc ‘pustule’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch pok and German Pocke. Compare with pox. |