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pock-mark, n.|ˈpɒkmɑːk|
Also pock mark, pockmark.
[f. pock n. + mark n.1]
A scar, mark, or ‘pit’ left by a pustule, esp. of smallpox. Also fig.
1673Wedderburn's Vocab. 20 (Jam.) Foveae variolarum, pock-marks. 1851D. Jerrold St. Giles ii. 15 His flat broad face was..thinly sprinkled with deep pock-marks. 1952G. Wilson Julien Ware i. 5 In the yard outside the bail a second cow..stumbled uncertainly..over the sun-dried pock⁓marks and ridges carved by her own hoofs..when the mud of winter lay there. 1954G. Durrell Bafut Beagles ix. 156 A steady downpour..turned the red earth of the great courtyard into a shimmering sea of blood-red clay freckled with pockmarks of the falling rain. 1966L. Cohen Beautiful Losers i. 23 Can I yearn after pimples and pock marks? 1976M. Green Children of Sun iv. 135 Orwell, while..at Eton, had no powerful defences against the stimulus to dandyism, and..a few pock-marks remained all his life in testimony of his inoculation. 1979R. Blythe View in Winter 85 The pock-marks of the shots are still to be seen today on the crinkle-crankle wall.
So ˈpock-mark v. trans., to mark or disfigure with pock-marks; also fig.; ˈpock-marked a., scarred or ‘pitted’ with pock-marks; also fig.
1756N. Jersey Archives (1898) XX. 16 Terence Milford,..has short brown hair, a little pock-marked. 1899Stead in Review of Rev. May 493/2 The whole area is pock-marked with public houses. 1908Flag (Union Jack Club) 39 The floors lower down were pock-marked with splashes of the liquid. 1928Daily Express 17 Apr. 10/2 Petrol pumps that pockmark the English countryside. 1952V. Canning House of Seven Flies xi. 155 The oars pock-marking the dark current with white eddies. 1957L. Durrell Justine i. 68 The silence pock-marked by the sound of our horses' hooves. 1963V. Nabokov Gift v. 306 A Georgian socialist with a pockmarked face. 1964A. Wykes Gambling i. 10 He risked his own somewhat pockmarked career. 1973Country Life 14 June 1751/1 Hollyhocks can be sprayed..to suppress rust-disease, whose orange pustules otherwise would soon pock-mark the foliage. 1977H. Innes Big Footprints i. i. 9 Walls pock-marked with bullets. 1979V. Canning Satan Sampler ix. 183 A fierce spring shower was pock-marking the surface of the lake. |