different between pimpled vs pimple

English

Etymology

pimple +? -ed

Adjective

pimpled (comparative more pimpled, superlative most pimpled)

1. Having pimples; pimply.

Translations

Verb

pimpled

1. simple past tense and past participle of pimple

English

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 pipli?ende (“having shingles”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?m'p(?)l
• IPA^(key): /?p?mp(?)l/
• Rhymes: -?mp?l

Noun

pimple (plural pimples)

1. 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

Synonyms

• acker (old Australian slang)
• acne
• pustule
• spot (UK, slang)
• zit (US, slang)

Related terms

• pimpled
• pimply

Translations

See also

• blackhead
• whitehead

Verb

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

1. To develop pimples

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Spanish

Verb

pimple

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of pimplar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of pimplar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of pimplar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of pimplar.