pimply
- 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
I 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
Skin with small raised spots
Skin that has many pimples or small red spots
Skin with many small raised spots, often on the face
A skin condition with many small raised bumps
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'.