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pimply, a.|ˈpɪmplɪ|
[f. pimple n. + -y.]
Full of pimples; covered or spotted with pimples. Also fig.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) I. xxxi. 227 Belton's [face] so pert and so pimply. 1769Pennant Zool. III. 7 The Toad,..the back flat, and covered with a pimply dusky hide. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xxx, A handsome face, only a little pimply as though with drinking. 1958Spectator 22 Aug. 260/1 The man-eating British lion By a pimply age brought down. 1973M. Amis Rachel Papers 17 It was a month I always think of with a certain pimply lyricism.
Comb.1873Routledge's Yng. Gentl. Mag. Feb. 174/2 A short..pimply-faced youth.
Hence ˈpimpliness.
1893Strand Mag. VII. 35 A pimpliness of countenance. |