Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A pus-filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease. · Any pit, especially one formed as a scar.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo scar or mark with pits.
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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