pimple

Noun

An inflamed skin swelling, often small and red.
a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne
An inflamed (raised and colored) spot on the surface of the skin that is usually painful and fills with pus.
An annoying person.
Scotch (whisky)

Verb

To develop pimples

Examples

A perfectly placed PIMPLE could score big if it were a valid Scrabble word.
He's such a pimple! I wish he'd stop being so irritating!
I had to pop that embarrassing pimple, it was huge and red and on the tip of my nose.

Origin / Etymology

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”).

Synonyms

hickey, zit, acker, acne, pimple and blotch, plook, pustule, spot

Scrabble Score: 12

pimple: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
pimple: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pimple: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

pimple: valid Words With Friends Word