pimply
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2.5
- adjective
- /ˈpɪmpli/
- When she described the person, I remembered a pale, pimply, shy girl who had seemed, if anything, even worse off than I.
- pimply face
- pimply kid
- pimply boy
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Watch on YouTubeI mean, it's walking home from school with, with my bassoon, my pimply face.
- I mean, it's walking home from school with, with my bassoon, my pimply face.
- It could be like some little pimply, ugly person from middle school that you feel sorry for now.
Examples
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Confused, the pimply-faced kid picks up the phone.
Fiction book (2002) -
The teenager was self-conscious about his pimply skin during his first date.
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A pimply face is a pimply soul.
Fiction book (1997) -
"My face is a pimply mess and I don't know what to do."
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Anyway, he was a scrawny, pimply kid, nothin' to write home about.
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"It'll just be a minute, sir," the pimply kid sputtered.
Fiction book (2000) -
In high school, I was the heavy-faced sullen girl slouched in her desk, picking at her pimply face.
Fiction book (1997) -
A pimply boy looming over a stack of coffee cups took our orders for medium-rare ribeyes.
Fiction book (1993) -
And it must have got like on my eyelids and I was getting all these weird red bumps, like little pimply type things on my eyelids.
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We walked over to the "Pro Shop," a counter manned by a pimply-faced adolescent in a "Bally's Reno Virtual Golf" sweatshirt.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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Skin with small raised spots
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6.9
Skin that has many pimples or small red spots
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9.6
A skin condition with many small raised bumps
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7.5
Skin with many small raised spots, often on the face
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9.9
Skin that has many small pus-filled bumps
Antonyms
How Pimply
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pimply comes from the simple word pimple, meaning a small spot on the skin, plus the ending -y, which means 'full of' or 'having'. So pimply means 'having many small raised spots or blemishes on the skin, especially the face'.