pockn.¹

Brit.

/pɒk/, U.S.

/pɑk/

Forms: Old English poc, Old English pocc, Middle English pok, Middle English–1500s pokke, Middle English–1500s (1800s Scottish) poke, Middle English–1700s pocke, 1500s pokk (Scottish), 1500s– pock. Plural Old English poccas, Middle English pockis, Middle English pockys, Middle English pokes, Middle English pokkez, Middle English pokkys, Middle English pokys, Middle English–1500s pokkes, Middle English–1700s pockes, 1500s pocques, 1500s– pocks; Scottish pre-1700 pockes, pre-1700 pockis, pre-1700 poikis, pre-1700 pokes, pre-1700 pokis, pre-1700 pokkis, pre-1700 polkis, pre-1700 1800s– pocks; N.E.D. (1907) also records a form late Middle English pocken. See also pox n.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with Middle Dutch pocke , poc (Dutch pok ), Middle Low German pocke , (rare) poche ( > German Pocke (16th cent.)), probably ultimately < the same Germanic base as pough n. With the plural form denoting various infectious diseases characterized by pustules (see senses 2 and 3) compare the following plural nouns: Middle Dutch pocken (in the phrase Spaense pocken syphilis, literally ‘Spanish pox’: 1497), Dutch pokken, †pocken syphilis (1573; now obsolete in this sense), smallpox (1608 or earlier), Middle Low German pocken smallpox, chickenpox, cow pox, sheep's pox, (in later use, c1500) syphilis, German Pocken syphilis (late 16th cent. or earlier; now obsolete in this sense), smallpox (early 17th cent. or earlier; < Middle Low German), Old Swedish, Swedish pockor, †pocker smallpox (beginning of the 16th cent. in Old Swedish), scabies (1640 or earlier; now obsolete in this sense), syphilis (1648 or earlier in the phrase franska pockor, literally ‘French pox’; now archaic; < Middle Low German), Danish pokker, †pocker smallpox, syphilis (early 16th cent. or earlier; now regional or archaic; < German), and also ( < Middle Dutch) French †pocques (c1500).The Old English word, which is masculine, differs in gender from all of the continental forms, which are feminine.

a. A pustule or vesicle; (in later use) esp. one typical of chickenpox and smallpox. Also: the scar left by such a pustule, a pockmark.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > eruption > [noun] > spot of

pockeOE

rosalia1676

rose spot1836

plaque1866

eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. xl. 104 Drenc wið poc adle wyl wæter on croccan do hunig on... Mid þy hunige smire þær hit utslea on þone poc.

eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. xl. 104 Drenc wiþ poccum bisceop wyrt, attorlaþan, [etc.].

OE Lacnunga (2001) I. ix. 6 Gif poc sy on eagan: nim mærc, sapan & hinde meolc;..do on ða eagan; mid Godes fultume he sceal aweg.

a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Cambr.) (1929) 616 (MED) Ore pleut a Deu qe tels foles Ussent faces pleins de veroles [glossed] pokes [v.r. pockes].

?a1450 tr. Macer Herbal (Stockh.) (1949) 102 (MED) A plastre of þis wole..resolue þe pockes and welkes of þe face.

?1529 S. Fish Supplicacyon for Beggers sig. A4 They..that catche the pokkes of one woman, and bere theym to an other.

c1535 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1905) III. Prol. to Rom. 318 Ewin as anne ewill skabbe or anne poke cann not alwayis be keipit in with the violence of medicynne.

a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 316 The powlings, the palsay, with pockes like pees.

1661 in S. Ree Rec. Elgin (1908) II. 294 She saw the chyld seik in the pocks and being enquired what she thought of the pock she ansuered that it was a lipper pock.

1722 Philos. Trans. 1720–21 (Royal Soc.) 31 56 Having great Pockes or Pustules on the Surface of their Bodies, from whence the Pox is denominated.

1776 H. Brooke Fool of Quality (rev. ed.) IV. xvii. 123 A few of the pock appeared on his face.

1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 150 The number of spots or ‘pocks’ varies from a few to thousands, but as a rule from 100 to 300 are present.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 559 With the retrogression of the pock and the subsidence of the areola the local phenomena of a normal vaccination are at an end.

1956 R. Halsband Life Lady Mary Wortley Montagu iii. 35 On Thursday Dr. Garth, who attended him, feared that the pocks were dangerously full.

1980 E. Jong Fanny ii. iv. 199 Others had Sores and Pocks upon their Faces.

1984 M. J. Taussig Processes in Pathol. & Microbiol. (ed. 2) iii. 278 Active variola virus can be recovered from dried pock crusts stored for a year at room temperature.

b. A small pit, depression, or hole resembling a pockmark.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > spot or mark

spotOE

markOE

tachea1400

macula?a1425

ruby1542

plotch1548

flea-biting1552

fleck1598

blanch1608

staina1616

naeve1619

neve1624

dark1637

sunspot1651

pip1676

liver spot1684

beauty spot1795

heat-spot1822

spilus1822

ink-spot1839

punctation1848

punctuation1848

macule1864

soldier's spots1874

pock1894

mouche1959

the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [noun]

spota1300

dropc1420

stud1751

gout1833

wafer1853

blob1863

pock1894

tache1957

the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > disfigurement > [noun] > a disfigurement or blemish > spot

speckc725

pock1894

1894 A. Conan Doyle Mem. Sherlock Holmes 99 Holmes..would..proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V.R. done in bullet-pocks.

1941 Utah: Guide to State (Federal Writers' Project) 159 Tourists and natives who have been constrained to add initials or bullet pocks to an otherwise perfect mural.

1981 J. May Many-colored Land iii. v. 329 They saw scarlet and blue swallows with long forked tails darting in and out of pocks in the limestone.

2003 R. Ozeki All over Creation ii. 84 Duncan rotated the tea bowl slowly in his hands, studying its pocks and careful imperfections.

a. = pox n. 1a, 1b.Also with preceding word, in the names of various diseases, in which pox also became the more common spelling; see chickenpox n., smallpox n., etc.

†(a) In plural with singular agreement. Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > smallpox

pock1296

variole?a1425

pox1476

small-pockc1510

smallpox?1562

variola1593

little pox?a1649

variolous1676

discrete smallpox1684

varioloid1820

varicelloid1873

variola major1902

whitepox1911

variola minor1925

1296–7 in L. M. Midgley Ministers' Accts. Earldom of Cornwall (1942) I. 67 (MED) Multones..Inde in mortuis ante tonsionem 25, in quodam morbo dicto pockes, et post tonsionem 5..Inde in mortuis..post fetum et ante tonsionem 67, in quodam morbo dicto pocks.

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xx. 97 (MED) Kynde come after with many kene sores, As pokkes and pestilences, and moche poeple shente.

?1438 in Wiltshire Archæol. & Nat. Hist. Mag. (1879) 18 12 (MED) His brodere had ye pokkes.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 117 Quhill that thai gatt the Spanȝie pockis.

1518 R. Pace Let. 14 July in J. S. Brewer Lett. & Papers Reign Henry VIII (1864) (modernized text) II. 1333 They do die..of the small pokkes and mezils.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 109 The pocks is vncredibly frequent amongst them.

1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 481 The disease of the Spanish Pocks.

1694 W. Salmon tr. Y. van Diemerbroeck Anat. Human Bodies (new ed.) ii. 2/2 There is a double Excrement of the Blood infected with that Malignity..; the Pocks proceeds from the thicker Excrement, and from the thinner the Measles.

1718 S. Rosewell Arraignment & Tryal Thomas Rosewell 265 Hang him..he is full of the Pockes.

1804 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 12 335 The disorder of small pocks or measles.

1887 J. Service Life Dr. Duguid xviii. 116 I could see that he was maskin' for the pocks.

(b) In singular. Now chiefly regional.

ΚΠ

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 407 Pokke, sekenesse, porrigo.

?c1450 in Anglia (1896) 18 306 Seint Nicasse had a pokke small.

1531 W. Tyndale Answere Mores Dialoge f. lxiiij If god punish the world with an evell pocke, they immediatly paynt a blocke & call it Iob to heale y^e disease.

1580 T. Bright Treat. Sufficiencie Eng. Med. 39 The infection without wound is the French pocke.

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 17 Would it were not an infectious bane, or an incroching pocke.

1813 E. Picken Misc. Poems II. 113 Hive, pock, an' measles a' at ance.

1845 S. Judd Margaret ii. v. 284 Glad you got through the pock so well—it takes a second time, some say.

1895 J. Tweeddale Moff ii. 28 I've had the poke five times, nae less.

c1920 in H. F. Farwell & K. Nicholas Smoky Mountain Voices (1993) 125 He had the pock.

1990 L. Todd Words Apart 129 They say she took the pock disaise (disease) when she was a chile.

†b. figurative. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors xv. sig. D8 The same pock that was in the clargys wyne and clothes, hath so infected the gentylmen of the temporaltye.

1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. bj^v Hathe not the pocke of thy licentiousnesse bruste furth in maner to thyne owne destruction.

1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. (1898) I. 131 Havinge then to treat upon tragicall affayres, procedynge of unnaturall luste, with lasyvius disposition, the onlye maister pocke and chief fountayne from whence distylleth all poysned humors of infection.

1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders To Rdr. sig. A3^v Neither can the waters..be cured of their spiritual barrennesse, or of the Romish pock and Ægyptian scab.

†c. In expressions of annoyance, etc.: see pox n. 2. Obsolete.

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the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > [noun] > exclamation or invocation showing

pock1573

bot1584

poxa1592

1573 G. Gascoigne tr. Ariosto Supposes iv. ii, in Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 34 A pockes eate you.

1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet B ij b A pockes of that religion.

1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd i. 23 A pocks on you for a rogue.

1633 W. Rowley All's Lost by Lust iii. sig. E4 Awake Rogue, pocks of your heavy flesh, hast thou no soule?

†3. = pox n. 1c. In singular, chiefly regional. Also in plural with singular agreement. Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of sheep > [noun] > other disorders of sheep

pocka1325

soughta1400

pox1530

mad1573

winter rot1577

snuffa1585

leaf1587

leaf-sickness1614

redwater1614

mentigo1706

tag1736

white water1743

hog pox1749

rickets1755

side-ill1776

resp1789

sheep-fag1789

thorter-ill1791

vanquish1792

smallpox1793

shell-sicknessc1794

sickness1794

grass-ill1795

rub1800

pine1804

pining1804

sheep-pock1804

stinking ill1807

water sickness1807

core1818

wryneck1819

tag-belt1826

tag-sore1828

kibe1830

agalaxia1894

agalactia1897

lupinosis1899

trembling1902

struck1903

black disease1906

scrapie1910

renguerra1917

pulpy kidney1927

dopiness1932

blowfly strike1933

body strike1934

sleepy sickness1937

swayback1938

twin lamb disease1945

tick pyaemia1946

fly-strike1950

maedi1952

nematodiriasis1957

visna1957

maedi-visna1972

visna-maedi1972

a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) 2253 (MED) A ffold ffol of ffale sheep..were half y-schore Oþer skabbede in þe pokkes.

?1489 in M. Bateson Rec. Borough Leicester (1901) II. 321 We shall take a lawfull asay of all maner of flessh that it be not takket [with] pok, moreyn, mesell, ne non oþer contagyous syknes ne defaulte.

1521 Dundee Burgh Court Bks. I. f. 47^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Pok Quhar ony presentis nocht all thar muton to the mercat..or bryngis ony demembret flesch blawyn or infekkit with pokk or lung evyll.

1531 W. Tyndale Expos. Fyrste Epist. St. Jhon sig. C.v Who dare denye S. Anthony a flese of wol..leste he sende the poxe amonge oure shepe.

1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Mentigo, the scabbe which is among shepe, called the pockes.

1796 G. Sutherland Let. in E. R. Mackay George Sutherland of Riarchar (1971) I don't wish Livall to sell any of the Brea sheep excepting such as had the pock, are old, or he thinks will not live.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive.

† pock-adle n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. xl. 104 Drenc wið poc adle wyl wæter on croccan do hunig on... Mid þy hunige smire þær hit utslea on þone poc.

pock hole n.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > scar > of plague or smallpox

pitOE

pock frecken1530

God's marks1531

pock hole1552

pitting1593

pock-arr1611

pockmarka1646

pock-fret1652

plague-stripe1714

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Pocke hole or scarre.

1608 Closet for Ladies & Gentlewomen 130 To take away the pocke-holes, or any spot in the face.

1654 Perfect Acct. Intelligence Armies & Navy No. 164. 1312 One of them [sc. a thief] was a slender man, a thin face, ful of pockholes, a white close coat.

1857 Times 2 Apr. 9/5 Mr. Locke is a man of 48, the face covered with pock-holes.

1970 Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 23 Sept. 11/2 The bark is circled with the pock holes of sapsuckers.

b. Instrumental, with past participial adjectives.

† pock-broken adj. Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox

pock-broken1440

pock eaten?1536

pock-frettena1638

pock-fret1652

pock-holed1653

pockmarked1685

pock-fretted1693

pock frecken1695

pock-pittena1697

pock-freckled1714

pock-pitted1746

cribbage-faced1785

pock-arred1787

stub-faced1788

plague-spotted1819

brookita1908

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 407 Pokbrokyn, porriginosus.

1658 Mercurius Politicus No. 411. 459 (advt.) Robert Baker, a yong man about 25 or 26 years of age, of a middle stature, slender, long visage, pock broken, with a visible long scar cross his cheek.

1719 J. Barker Bosvil & Galesia 40 Why..did I not with Teeth, or Rickets die, Or other Accidents of Infancy; Or why not lame, bum-back'd, pock-broken Face.

1862 G. Borrow Wild Wales xxxvii His face was long and rather good-looking, though slightly pock-broken.

1891 T. Allan & G. Allan Tyneside Songs 2 He's sair pock broken.

† pock eaten adj. Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox

pock-broken1440

pock eaten?1536

pock-frettena1638

pock-fret1652

pock-holed1653

pockmarked1685

pock-fretted1693

pock frecken1695

pock-pittena1697

pock-freckled1714

pock-pitted1746

cribbage-faced1785

pock-arred1787

stub-faced1788

plague-spotted1819

brookita1908

?1536 R. Copland Hye Way to Spyttell Hous sig. Aiii^v Scabby & scuruy, pocke eaten flesh and rynde.

† pock-freckled adj. Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox

pock-broken1440

pock eaten?1536

pock-frettena1638

pock-fret1652

pock-holed1653

pockmarked1685

pock-fretted1693

pock frecken1695

pock-pittena1697

pock-freckled1714

pock-pitted1746

cribbage-faced1785

pock-arred1787

stub-faced1788

plague-spotted1819

brookita1908

1714 London Gaz. No. 5223/4 A spare middle-siz'd Man, Pockfreckled and Ruddy Complexion.

1785 Proc. Old Bailey 19 Oct. 1312/1 His hair was tied behind, and he was a pock-freckled young man.

pock-fretted adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox

pock-broken1440

pock eaten?1536

pock-frettena1638

pock-fret1652

pock-holed1653

pockmarked1685

pock-fretted1693

pock frecken1695

pock-pittena1697

pock-freckled1714

pock-pitted1746

cribbage-faced1785

pock-arred1787

stub-faced1788

plague-spotted1819

brookita1908

1693 London Gaz. No. 2843/4 Pale-faced, and a little Pock-fretted.

1819 Times 17 Aug. 3/4 He was a tallish man, pock-fretted, with a thinnish face.

1998 F. Mount Jem (& Sam) 376 His skin was as pock-fretted as the surface of Vesuvius.

pock-fretten adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox

pock-broken1440

pock eaten?1536

pock-frettena1638

pock-fret1652

pock-holed1653

pockmarked1685

pock-fretted1693

pock frecken1695

pock-pittena1697

pock-freckled1714

pock-pitted1746

cribbage-faced1785

pock-arred1787

stub-faced1788

plague-spotted1819

brookita1908

a1638 R. James Poems (1880) 213 A Virginne..proper of all things but a pale pock fretten face.

1708 London Gaz. No. 4427/16 A little pock-fretten, sometimes a colour in his Face.

1840 F. Trollope Widow Married I. i. 20 A deal better chance that your child will be like what you see there, than to poor pock-fretten Phebe.

1988 M. Bragg Rich i. iv. 33 The suspicious street boy now, despite his pock-fretten skin, coming into a youthful handsomeness.

pock-holed adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox

pock-broken1440

pock eaten?1536

pock-frettena1638

pock-fret1652

pock-holed1653

pockmarked1685

pock-fretted1693

pock frecken1695

pock-pittena1697

pock-freckled1714

pock-pitted1746

cribbage-faced1785

pock-arred1787

stub-faced1788

plague-spotted1819

brookita1908

1653 Mercurius Democritus No. 44. 349 My pock-hol'd Face, they say appear'd to some Much like a dry and burnt up Honey combe.

1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Pock-hooal'd, marked with the small pox.

1920 D. H. Lawrence Lost Girl i. 15 He..could not bear any more to put the heavy, pock-holed black cloth coat, with wild bear cuffs and collar, on to the stand.

pock-pitted adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox

pock-broken1440

pock eaten?1536

pock-frettena1638

pock-fret1652

pock-holed1653

pockmarked1685

pock-fretted1693

pock frecken1695

pock-pittena1697

pock-freckled1714

pock-pitted1746

cribbage-faced1785

pock-arred1787

stub-faced1788

plague-spotted1819

brookita1908

1746 Pennsylvania Jrnl. 21 Jan. Run-away the 7th of December last from the Privateer Ship Marlborough,..Francis Hickey, short and well set, pock pitted, aged about 24 Years, had on a blew Coat.

1824 T. Carlyle Let. 23 June in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1970) III. 83 His face pock-pitted, hirsute and bristly was at once vast and hatchet-shaped.

1909 P. Sheavyn Literary Profession Elizabethan Age vi. 125 Everyone in the reading and theatre-going fraternity knew Jonson's pock-pitted face and burly figure.

C2.

pock-arr n. English regional (northern) a pockmark or scar caused by smallpox.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > scar > of plague or smallpox

pitOE

pock frecken1530

God's marks1531

pock hole1552

pitting1593

pock-arr1611

pockmarka1646

pock-fret1652

plague-stripe1714

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fossetteux,..full of little pits, pockars, or pock-holes.

1651 Faithful Scout No. 16. 122 He is a tall man, ruddy-coloured, and hath some Pock-arrs in his face.

1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 3 An Arr; A Skar. Pock-arrs, the Marks made by the Small Pox. This is a general Word, common both to North and South.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Pock-arr, Pock-mark, a scar or mark left by the small pox.

1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Pock-arr, a scar caused by small-pox.

1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 238 Pock-arr, a pock.

pock-arred adj. scarred, marked, or pitted by smallpox, chickenpox, acne, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox

pock-broken1440

pock eaten?1536

pock-frettena1638

pock-fret1652

pock-holed1653

pockmarked1685

pock-fretted1693

pock frecken1695

pock-pittena1697

pock-freckled1714

pock-pitted1746

cribbage-faced1785

pock-arred1787

stub-faced1788

plague-spotted1819

brookita1908

1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Pock-arrd, marked with the small-pox.

1868 W. Shelley Flowers by Wayside 57 Her pockard face was groff as sin.

1881 J. Sargisson Joe Scoap's Jurneh 201 Thoo ugly pock-aart spaffles.

1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 230/1 Pockarred, pockmarked; once as the result of small-pox, but now usually the results of chicken-pox or acne.

† pock frecken n. and adj. Obsolete (a) n.= pock-arr n.; (b) adj.= pock-arred adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > scar > of plague or smallpox

pitOE

pock frecken1530

God's marks1531

pock hole1552

pitting1593

pock-arr1611

pockmarka1646

pock-fret1652

plague-stripe1714

the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox

pock-broken1440

pock eaten?1536

pock-frettena1638

pock-fret1652

pock-holed1653

pockmarked1685

pock-fretted1693

pock frecken1695

pock-pittena1697

pock-freckled1714

pock-pitted1746

cribbage-faced1785

pock-arred1787

stub-faced1788

plague-spotted1819

brookita1908

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 256/1 Poke frekyns, picquetevre or picquottevre de uerolle.

1695 London Gaz. No. 3134/4 Mary Scarlet,..thin visage, swarthy complexion, pock frecken.

† pock-fret adj. and n. Obsolete (a) adj.= pock-arred adj.; (b) n.= pock-arr n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > scar > of plague or smallpox

pitOE

pock frecken1530

God's marks1531

pock hole1552

pitting1593

pock-arr1611

pockmarka1646

pock-fret1652

plague-stripe1714

the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox

pock-broken1440

pock eaten?1536

pock-frettena1638

pock-fret1652

pock-holed1653

pockmarked1685

pock-fretted1693

pock frecken1695

pock-pittena1697

pock-freckled1714

pock-pitted1746

cribbage-faced1785

pock-arred1787

stub-faced1788

plague-spotted1819

brookita1908

1652 Edwards' Treat. conc. Plague 118 in A. M. Rich Closet Bath the face twice or thrice, though all the Pocks be pulled away, it shall not be Pock fret.

1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope II. 198 Several hairs would remain in the pock-frets.

1744 Boston Weekly Post-boy 1 Oct. 4/2 Byrn..looks pale and pockfret.

1793 Louisa Mathews II. xvi. 155 The youngest [daughter], a pock-fret, pretty smart little body, as you shall clap your eyes on.

pock house n. U.S.(now rare and historical) a hospital for people with smallpox.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > smallpox hospital

pock house1820

1820 in Sunday Record (Middletown, N.Y.) (1976) 4 July 60 b/2 He kept these houses two years, after which inoculation was admitted into private families, and pock-houses were considered no longer necessary.

1879 A. P. Marvin Hist. Lancaster 364 Dr. Israel Atherton..exposed himself to the hazard of disease and death..by setting up a ‘pock house’ or, ‘pest house’, as the hospital for inoculated patients was vulgarly termed.

1902 Med. News 21 June 1165/2 There were no hospitals, except pock-houses, and practically no medical organization.

† pock-lymph n. Obsolete the lymph of a vesicle of cowpox, as formerly used in vaccination against smallpox.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > vaccine or antiserum > [noun] > vaccine > of cowpox or smallpox

variolous matter1676

vaccine lymph1799

lymph1800

vaccine1800

humanized lymph1839

pock-lymph1876

calf-lymph1884

1876 Nature 2 Nov. 15/1 The efficacy of pock-lymph has been attributed..to the presence of small organisms of the nature of Mic[r]ococcus.

1881 J. Tyndall Ess. Floating Matter of Air 119 A quantity of matter, comparable in smallness to the pock-lymph held on the point of a lancet.

pock-pit n. a pockmark; also in extended use.

ΚΠ

?1775 Trials Felons Castle of York 38/2 She said he was a little thin-faced, and some pock pits.

1918 Evening State Jrnl. & Lincoln (Nebraska) Daily News 15 May 9/2 (advt.) Microscopic spurs, pock-pits and other roughnesses that are present in even the most highly polished bearings.

† pock-pit v. Obsolete transitive to mark with pockmarks (figurative in quots.).

ΚΠ

1843 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 53 225 It becomes a plague, a moral small-pox,..pockpitting his small modicum of brains.

1880 Times 13 Dec. 6/7 The cultivation and settlement upon those waste tracts that pock-pit the fair face of the island.

† pock-pitten adj. [ < pock v. + pit v.¹ + -en suffix⁶; compare pock-pitted adj. at Compounds 1b] Obsolete = pock-arred adj.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox

pock-broken1440

pock eaten?1536

pock-frettena1638

pock-fret1652

pock-holed1653

pockmarked1685

pock-fretted1693

pock frecken1695

pock-pittena1697

pock-freckled1714

pock-pitted1746

cribbage-faced1785

pock-arred1787

stub-faced1788

plague-spotted1819

brookita1908

a1697 J. Aubrey Brief Lives (1898) II. 196 His haire was of a very light flaxen, almost white... He was of a pale ill complexion and pock-pitten.

1808 Public Intelligencer (Chatham County, Georgia) 3 June 4/3 [He] is about 30 years of age,..very much pock pitten, which alteration in his countenance has been made since the year 1804.

?1888 A. Dobson in Coll. Poems (1913) 448 He's a queer little fellow, grave-featured, pock-pitten, Tho' they say, in his cups, he's as gay as a kitten.

pock-rotten adj. (also pocks-rotten) now rare in a poor physical condition owing to the effects of syphilis; also figurative.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > venereal disease > [adjective] > syphilis > infected with

pockyc1350

French-sick1605

Frenchified1607

pock-rotten1616

poxed1678

Gallican1694

syphilitic1787

pox-fouleda1915

1616 W. Cornwallis Essayes Certaine Paradoxes sig. F You neuer see fat panches, and plumpt cheekes, and idle fellowes euer admitted into..the Hospitall and Lazer-house of the Pock-rotten aduenturers.

1682 in New-Eng. Historical & Geneal. Reg. (1898) LII. 27 A tall thin-faced fellow pocks rotten.

1988 C. D. Eby Road to Armageddon ii. 12 In some English circles there was a certain satisfaction in learning that the military legacy of their hereditary enemy was nothing more than a pock-rotten myth.

† pockroyal n. humorous Obsolete a lesion occurring in syphilis.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > abscess > ulcer > of venereal disease

dosser1547

buttons of Naples1575

chancrea1585

pock-sore1625

chank1686

pockroyal1694

1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. v They are thus bescabb'd, bescurf'd..with Carbuncles, Pashes, and Pockroyals.

† pock-sore n. Obsolete a sore caused by syphilis.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > abscess > ulcer > of venereal disease

dosser1547

buttons of Naples1575

chancrea1585

pock-sore1625

chank1686

pockroyal1694

1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes vii. 1308 The leaves of these [sc. the Caaroba tree] chewed and layd to the Pock-sore drye and heale it in such manner, that it neuer commeth againe.

1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. iii. 89 Neither must the Chyrurgion dresse their wounds, or pock-soars.

pockstone n. English regional (rare) a hard greyish stone found in the coal measures of Staffordshire; cf. pox-stone n. at pox n. Compounds.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > [noun] > hard stone > pox-stone

pox-stone1686

pockstone1739

1739 R. Wilkes in S. Shaw Hist. & Antiq. Staffordshire (1801) II. 85/1 Clay thus hardened is here [sc. in Wednesbury] called pock stone.

1902 C. G. Harper Holyhead Road ii. 33 Those foundations have an unusual interest, built as they are of the material called ‘pockstone’.

† pock tree n. Obsolete rare = pockwood n.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > guaiacum or lignum vitae

pock tree?1533

guaiacum1553

lignum sanctum1553

pockwood tree1590

lignum vitae1597

wood of life1597

holy wood1712

lignum1899

?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Di^v The pocke tre, gaiaqz ou eban.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	pock
释义	pockn.¹ Brit. /pɒk/, U.S. /pɑk/ Forms: Old English poc, Old English pocc, Middle English pok, Middle English–1500s pokke, Middle English–1500s (1800s Scottish) poke, Middle English–1700s pocke, 1500s pokk (Scottish), 1500s– pock. Plural Old English poccas, Middle English pockis, Middle English pockys, Middle English pokes, Middle English pokkez, Middle English pokkys, Middle English pokys, Middle English–1500s pokkes, Middle English–1700s pockes, 1500s pocques, 1500s– pocks; Scottish pre-1700 pockes, pre-1700 pockis, pre-1700 poikis, pre-1700 pokes, pre-1700 pokis, pre-1700 pokkis, pre-1700 polkis, pre-1700 1800s– pocks; N.E.D. (1907) also records a form late Middle English pocken. See also pox n. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Middle Dutch pocke , poc (Dutch pok ), Middle Low German pocke , (rare) poche ( > German Pocke (16th cent.)), probably ultimately < the same Germanic base as pough n. With the plural form denoting various infectious diseases characterized by pustules (see senses 2 and 3) compare the following plural nouns: Middle Dutch pocken (in the phrase Spaense pocken syphilis, literally ‘Spanish pox’: 1497), Dutch pokken, †pocken syphilis (1573; now obsolete in this sense), smallpox (1608 or earlier), Middle Low German pocken smallpox, chickenpox, cow pox, sheep's pox, (in later use, c1500) syphilis, German Pocken syphilis (late 16th cent. or earlier; now obsolete in this sense), smallpox (early 17th cent. or earlier; < Middle Low German), Old Swedish, Swedish pockor, †pocker smallpox (beginning of the 16th cent. in Old Swedish), scabies (1640 or earlier; now obsolete in this sense), syphilis (1648 or earlier in the phrase franska pockor, literally ‘French pox’; now archaic; < Middle Low German), Danish pokker, †pocker smallpox, syphilis (early 16th cent. or earlier; now regional or archaic; < German), and also ( < Middle Dutch) French †pocques (c1500).The Old English word, which is masculine, differs in gender from all of the continental forms, which are feminine. 1. a. A pustule or vesicle; (in later use) esp. one typical of chickenpox and smallpox. Also: the scar left by such a pustule, a pockmark. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > eruption > [noun] > spot of pockeOE rosalia1676 rose spot1836 plaque1866 eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. xl. 104 Drenc wið poc adle wyl wæter on croccan do hunig on... Mid þy hunige smire þær hit utslea on þone poc. eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. xl. 104 Drenc wiþ poccum bisceop wyrt, attorlaþan, [etc.]. OE Lacnunga (2001) I. ix. 6 Gif poc sy on eagan: nim mærc, sapan & hinde meolc;..do on ða eagan; mid Godes fultume he sceal aweg. a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Cambr.) (1929) 616 (MED) Ore pleut a Deu qe tels foles Ussent faces pleins de veroles [glossed] pokes [v.r. pockes]. ?a1450 tr. Macer Herbal (Stockh.) (1949) 102 (MED) A plastre of þis wole..resolue þe pockes and welkes of þe face. ?1529 S. Fish Supplicacyon for Beggers sig. A4 They..that catche the pokkes of one woman, and bere theym to an other. c1535 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1905) III. Prol. to Rom. 318 Ewin as anne ewill skabbe or anne poke cann not alwayis be keipit in with the violence of medicynne. a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 316 The powlings, the palsay, with pockes like pees. 1661 in S. Ree Rec. Elgin (1908) II. 294 She saw the chyld seik in the pocks and being enquired what she thought of the pock she ansuered that it was a lipper pock. 1722 Philos. Trans. 1720–21 (Royal Soc.) 31 56 Having great Pockes or Pustules on the Surface of their Bodies, from whence the Pox is denominated. 1776 H. Brooke Fool of Quality (rev. ed.) IV. xvii. 123 A few of the pock appeared on his face. 1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 150 The number of spots or ‘pocks’ varies from a few to thousands, but as a rule from 100 to 300 are present. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 559 With the retrogression of the pock and the subsidence of the areola the local phenomena of a normal vaccination are at an end. 1956 R. Halsband Life Lady Mary Wortley Montagu iii. 35 On Thursday Dr. Garth, who attended him, feared that the pocks were dangerously full. 1980 E. Jong Fanny ii. iv. 199 Others had Sores and Pocks upon their Faces. 1984 M. J. Taussig Processes in Pathol. & Microbiol. (ed. 2) iii. 278 Active variola virus can be recovered from dried pock crusts stored for a year at room temperature. b. A small pit, depression, or hole resembling a pockmark. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > spot or mark spotOE markOE tachea1400 macula?a1425 ruby1542 plotch1548 flea-biting1552 fleck1598 blanch1608 staina1616 naeve1619 neve1624 dark1637 sunspot1651 pip1676 liver spot1684 beauty spot1795 heat-spot1822 spilus1822 ink-spot1839 punctation1848 punctuation1848 macule1864 soldier's spots1874 pock1894 mouche1959 the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [noun] spota1300 dropc1420 stud1751 gout1833 wafer1853 blob1863 pock1894 tache1957 the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > disfigurement > [noun] > a disfigurement or blemish > spot speckc725 pock1894 1894 A. Conan Doyle Mem. Sherlock Holmes 99 Holmes..would..proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V.R. done in bullet-pocks. 1941 Utah: Guide to State (Federal Writers' Project) 159 Tourists and natives who have been constrained to add initials or bullet pocks to an otherwise perfect mural. 1981 J. May Many-colored Land iii. v. 329 They saw scarlet and blue swallows with long forked tails darting in and out of pocks in the limestone. 2003 R. Ozeki All over Creation ii. 84 Duncan rotated the tea bowl slowly in his hands, studying its pocks and careful imperfections. 2. a. = pox n. 1a, 1b.Also with preceding word, in the names of various diseases, in which pox also became the more common spelling; see chickenpox n., smallpox n., etc. †(a) In plural with singular agreement. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > smallpox pock1296 variole?a1425 pox1476 small-pockc1510 smallpox?1562 variola1593 little pox?a1649 variolous1676 discrete smallpox1684 varioloid1820 varicelloid1873 variola major1902 whitepox1911 variola minor1925 1296–7 in L. M. Midgley Ministers' Accts. Earldom of Cornwall (1942) I. 67 (MED) Multones..Inde in mortuis ante tonsionem 25, in quodam morbo dicto pockes, et post tonsionem 5..Inde in mortuis..post fetum et ante tonsionem 67, in quodam morbo dicto pocks. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xx. 97 (MED) Kynde come after with many kene sores, As pokkes and pestilences, and moche poeple shente. ?1438 in Wiltshire Archæol. & Nat. Hist. Mag. (1879) 18 12 (MED) His brodere had ye pokkes. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 117 Quhill that thai gatt the Spanȝie pockis. 1518 R. Pace Let. 14 July in J. S. Brewer Lett. & Papers Reign Henry VIII (1864) (modernized text) II. 1333 They do die..of the small pokkes and mezils. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 109 The pocks is vncredibly frequent amongst them. 1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 481 The disease of the Spanish Pocks. 1694 W. Salmon tr. Y. van Diemerbroeck Anat. Human Bodies (new ed.) ii. 2/2 There is a double Excrement of the Blood infected with that Malignity..; the Pocks proceeds from the thicker Excrement, and from the thinner the Measles. 1718 S. Rosewell Arraignment & Tryal Thomas Rosewell 265 Hang him..he is full of the Pockes. 1804 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 12 335 The disorder of small pocks or measles. 1887 J. Service Life Dr. Duguid xviii. 116 I could see that he was maskin' for the pocks. (b) In singular. Now chiefly regional. ΚΠ Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 407 Pokke, sekenesse, porrigo. ?c1450 in Anglia (1896) 18 306 Seint Nicasse had a pokke small. 1531 W. Tyndale Answere Mores Dialoge f. lxiiij If god punish the world with an evell pocke, they immediatly paynt a blocke & call it Iob to heale y^e disease. 1580 T. Bright Treat. Sufficiencie Eng. Med. 39 The infection without wound is the French pocke. 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 17 Would it were not an infectious bane, or an incroching pocke. 1813 E. Picken Misc. Poems II. 113 Hive, pock, an' measles a' at ance. 1845 S. Judd Margaret ii. v. 284 Glad you got through the pock so well—it takes a second time, some say. 1895 J. Tweeddale Moff ii. 28 I've had the poke five times, nae less. c1920 in H. F. Farwell & K. Nicholas Smoky Mountain Voices (1993) 125 He had the pock. 1990 L. Todd Words Apart 129 They say she took the pock disaise (disease) when she was a chile. †b. figurative. Obsolete. ΚΠ ?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors xv. sig. D8 The same pock that was in the clargys wyne and clothes, hath so infected the gentylmen of the temporaltye. 1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. bj^v Hathe not the pocke of thy licentiousnesse bruste furth in maner to thyne owne destruction. 1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. (1898) I. 131 Havinge then to treat upon tragicall affayres, procedynge of unnaturall luste, with lasyvius disposition, the onlye maister pocke and chief fountayne from whence distylleth all poysned humors of infection. 1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders To Rdr. sig. A3^v Neither can the waters..be cured of their spiritual barrennesse, or of the Romish pock and Ægyptian scab. †c. In expressions of annoyance, etc.: see pox n. 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > [noun] > exclamation or invocation showing pock1573 bot1584 poxa1592 1573 G. Gascoigne tr. Ariosto Supposes iv. ii, in Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 34 A pockes eate you. 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet B ij b A pockes of that religion. 1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd i. 23 A pocks on you for a rogue. 1633 W. Rowley All's Lost by Lust iii. sig. E4 Awake Rogue, pocks of your heavy flesh, hast thou no soule? †3. = pox n. 1c. In singular, chiefly regional. Also in plural with singular agreement. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of sheep > [noun] > other disorders of sheep pocka1325 soughta1400 pox1530 mad1573 winter rot1577 snuffa1585 leaf1587 leaf-sickness1614 redwater1614 mentigo1706 tag1736 white water1743 hog pox1749 rickets1755 side-ill1776 resp1789 sheep-fag1789 thorter-ill1791 vanquish1792 smallpox1793 shell-sicknessc1794 sickness1794 grass-ill1795 rub1800 pine1804 pining1804 sheep-pock1804 stinking ill1807 water sickness1807 core1818 wryneck1819 tag-belt1826 tag-sore1828 kibe1830 agalaxia1894 agalactia1897 lupinosis1899 trembling1902 struck1903 black disease1906 scrapie1910 renguerra1917 pulpy kidney1927 dopiness1932 blowfly strike1933 body strike1934 sleepy sickness1937 swayback1938 twin lamb disease1945 tick pyaemia1946 fly-strike1950 maedi1952 nematodiriasis1957 visna1957 maedi-visna1972 visna-maedi1972 a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) 2253 (MED) A ffold ffol of ffale sheep..were half y-schore Oþer skabbede in þe pokkes. ?1489 in M. Bateson Rec. Borough Leicester (1901) II. 321 We shall take a lawfull asay of all maner of flessh that it be not takket [with] pok, moreyn, mesell, ne non oþer contagyous syknes ne defaulte. 1521 Dundee Burgh Court Bks. I. f. 47^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Pok Quhar ony presentis nocht all thar muton to the mercat..or bryngis ony demembret flesch blawyn or infekkit with pokk or lung evyll. 1531 W. Tyndale Expos. Fyrste Epist. St. Jhon sig. C.v Who dare denye S. Anthony a flese of wol..leste he sende the poxe amonge oure shepe. 1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Mentigo, the scabbe which is among shepe, called the pockes. 1796 G. Sutherland Let. in E. R. Mackay George Sutherland of Riarchar (1971) I don't wish Livall to sell any of the Brea sheep excepting such as had the pock, are old, or he thinks will not live. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. † pock-adle n. Obsolete ΚΠ eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. xl. 104 Drenc wið poc adle wyl wæter on croccan do hunig on... Mid þy hunige smire þær hit utslea on þone poc. pock hole n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > scar > of plague or smallpox pitOE pock frecken1530 God's marks1531 pock hole1552 pitting1593 pock-arr1611 pockmarka1646 pock-fret1652 plague-stripe1714 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Pocke hole or scarre. 1608 Closet for Ladies & Gentlewomen 130 To take away the pocke-holes, or any spot in the face. 1654 Perfect Acct. Intelligence Armies & Navy No. 164. 1312 One of them [sc. a thief] was a slender man, a thin face, ful of pockholes, a white close coat. 1857 Times 2 Apr. 9/5 Mr. Locke is a man of 48, the face covered with pock-holes. 1970 Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 23 Sept. 11/2 The bark is circled with the pock holes of sapsuckers. b. Instrumental, with past participial adjectives. † pock-broken adj. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox pock-broken1440 pock eaten?1536 pock-frettena1638 pock-fret1652 pock-holed1653 pockmarked1685 pock-fretted1693 pock frecken1695 pock-pittena1697 pock-freckled1714 pock-pitted1746 cribbage-faced1785 pock-arred1787 stub-faced1788 plague-spotted1819 brookita1908 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 407 Pokbrokyn, porriginosus. 1658 Mercurius Politicus No. 411. 459 (advt.) Robert Baker, a yong man about 25 or 26 years of age, of a middle stature, slender, long visage, pock broken, with a visible long scar cross his cheek. 1719 J. Barker Bosvil & Galesia 40 Why..did I not with Teeth, or Rickets die, Or other Accidents of Infancy; Or why not lame, bum-back'd, pock-broken Face. 1862 G. Borrow Wild Wales xxxvii His face was long and rather good-looking, though slightly pock-broken. 1891 T. Allan & G. Allan Tyneside Songs 2 He's sair pock broken. † pock eaten adj. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox pock-broken1440 pock eaten?1536 pock-frettena1638 pock-fret1652 pock-holed1653 pockmarked1685 pock-fretted1693 pock frecken1695 pock-pittena1697 pock-freckled1714 pock-pitted1746 cribbage-faced1785 pock-arred1787 stub-faced1788 plague-spotted1819 brookita1908 ?1536 R. Copland Hye Way to Spyttell Hous sig. Aiii^v Scabby & scuruy, pocke eaten flesh and rynde. † pock-freckled adj. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox pock-broken1440 pock eaten?1536 pock-frettena1638 pock-fret1652 pock-holed1653 pockmarked1685 pock-fretted1693 pock frecken1695 pock-pittena1697 pock-freckled1714 pock-pitted1746 cribbage-faced1785 pock-arred1787 stub-faced1788 plague-spotted1819 brookita1908 1714 London Gaz. No. 5223/4 A spare middle-siz'd Man, Pockfreckled and Ruddy Complexion. 1785 Proc. Old Bailey 19 Oct. 1312/1 His hair was tied behind, and he was a pock-freckled young man. pock-fretted adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox pock-broken1440 pock eaten?1536 pock-frettena1638 pock-fret1652 pock-holed1653 pockmarked1685 pock-fretted1693 pock frecken1695 pock-pittena1697 pock-freckled1714 pock-pitted1746 cribbage-faced1785 pock-arred1787 stub-faced1788 plague-spotted1819 brookita1908 1693 London Gaz. No. 2843/4 Pale-faced, and a little Pock-fretted. 1819 Times 17 Aug. 3/4 He was a tallish man, pock-fretted, with a thinnish face. 1998 F. Mount Jem (& Sam) 376 His skin was as pock-fretted as the surface of Vesuvius. pock-fretten adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox pock-broken1440 pock eaten?1536 pock-frettena1638 pock-fret1652 pock-holed1653 pockmarked1685 pock-fretted1693 pock frecken1695 pock-pittena1697 pock-freckled1714 pock-pitted1746 cribbage-faced1785 pock-arred1787 stub-faced1788 plague-spotted1819 brookita1908 a1638 R. James Poems (1880) 213 A Virginne..proper of all things but a pale pock fretten face. 1708 London Gaz. No. 4427/16 A little pock-fretten, sometimes a colour in his Face. 1840 F. Trollope Widow Married I. i. 20 A deal better chance that your child will be like what you see there, than to poor pock-fretten Phebe. 1988 M. Bragg Rich i. iv. 33 The suspicious street boy now, despite his pock-fretten skin, coming into a youthful handsomeness. pock-holed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox pock-broken1440 pock eaten?1536 pock-frettena1638 pock-fret1652 pock-holed1653 pockmarked1685 pock-fretted1693 pock frecken1695 pock-pittena1697 pock-freckled1714 pock-pitted1746 cribbage-faced1785 pock-arred1787 stub-faced1788 plague-spotted1819 brookita1908 1653 Mercurius Democritus No. 44. 349 My pock-hol'd Face, they say appear'd to some Much like a dry and burnt up Honey combe. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Pock-hooal'd, marked with the small pox. 1920 D. H. Lawrence Lost Girl i. 15 He..could not bear any more to put the heavy, pock-holed black cloth coat, with wild bear cuffs and collar, on to the stand. pock-pitted adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox pock-broken1440 pock eaten?1536 pock-frettena1638 pock-fret1652 pock-holed1653 pockmarked1685 pock-fretted1693 pock frecken1695 pock-pittena1697 pock-freckled1714 pock-pitted1746 cribbage-faced1785 pock-arred1787 stub-faced1788 plague-spotted1819 brookita1908 1746 Pennsylvania Jrnl. 21 Jan. Run-away the 7th of December last from the Privateer Ship Marlborough,..Francis Hickey, short and well set, pock pitted, aged about 24 Years, had on a blew Coat. 1824 T. Carlyle Let. 23 June in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1970) III. 83 His face pock-pitted, hirsute and bristly was at once vast and hatchet-shaped. 1909 P. Sheavyn Literary Profession Elizabethan Age vi. 125 Everyone in the reading and theatre-going fraternity knew Jonson's pock-pitted face and burly figure. C2. pock-arr n. English regional (northern) a pockmark or scar caused by smallpox. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > scar > of plague or smallpox pitOE pock frecken1530 God's marks1531 pock hole1552 pitting1593 pock-arr1611 pockmarka1646 pock-fret1652 plague-stripe1714 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fossetteux,..full of little pits, pockars, or pock-holes. 1651 Faithful Scout No. 16. 122 He is a tall man, ruddy-coloured, and hath some Pock-arrs in his face. 1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 3 An Arr; A Skar. Pock-arrs, the Marks made by the Small Pox. This is a general Word, common both to North and South. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Pock-arr, Pock-mark, a scar or mark left by the small pox. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Pock-arr, a scar caused by small-pox. 1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 238 Pock-arr, a pock. pock-arred adj. scarred, marked, or pitted by smallpox, chickenpox, acne, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox pock-broken1440 pock eaten?1536 pock-frettena1638 pock-fret1652 pock-holed1653 pockmarked1685 pock-fretted1693 pock frecken1695 pock-pittena1697 pock-freckled1714 pock-pitted1746 cribbage-faced1785 pock-arred1787 stub-faced1788 plague-spotted1819 brookita1908 1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Pock-arrd, marked with the small-pox. 1868 W. Shelley Flowers by Wayside 57 Her pockard face was groff as sin. 1881 J. Sargisson Joe Scoap's Jurneh 201 Thoo ugly pock-aart spaffles. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 230/1 Pockarred, pockmarked; once as the result of small-pox, but now usually the results of chicken-pox or acne. † pock frecken n. and adj. Obsolete (a) n.= pock-arr n.; (b) adj.= pock-arred adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > scar > of plague or smallpox pitOE pock frecken1530 God's marks1531 pock hole1552 pitting1593 pock-arr1611 pockmarka1646 pock-fret1652 plague-stripe1714 the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox pock-broken1440 pock eaten?1536 pock-frettena1638 pock-fret1652 pock-holed1653 pockmarked1685 pock-fretted1693 pock frecken1695 pock-pittena1697 pock-freckled1714 pock-pitted1746 cribbage-faced1785 pock-arred1787 stub-faced1788 plague-spotted1819 brookita1908 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 256/1 Poke frekyns, picquetevre or picquottevre de uerolle. 1695 London Gaz. No. 3134/4 Mary Scarlet,..thin visage, swarthy complexion, pock frecken. † pock-fret adj. and n. Obsolete (a) adj.= pock-arred adj.; (b) n.= pock-arr n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > scar > of plague or smallpox pitOE pock frecken1530 God's marks1531 pock hole1552 pitting1593 pock-arr1611 pockmarka1646 pock-fret1652 plague-stripe1714 the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox pock-broken1440 pock eaten?1536 pock-frettena1638 pock-fret1652 pock-holed1653 pockmarked1685 pock-fretted1693 pock frecken1695 pock-pittena1697 pock-freckled1714 pock-pitted1746 cribbage-faced1785 pock-arred1787 stub-faced1788 plague-spotted1819 brookita1908 1652 Edwards' Treat. conc. Plague 118 in A. M. Rich Closet Bath the face twice or thrice, though all the Pocks be pulled away, it shall not be Pock fret. 1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope II. 198 Several hairs would remain in the pock-frets. 1744 Boston Weekly Post-boy 1 Oct. 4/2 Byrn..looks pale and pockfret. 1793 Louisa Mathews II. xvi. 155 The youngest [daughter], a pock-fret, pretty smart little body, as you shall clap your eyes on. pock house n. U.S.(now rare and historical) a hospital for people with smallpox. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > smallpox hospital pock house1820 1820 in Sunday Record (Middletown, N.Y.) (1976) 4 July 60 b/2 He kept these houses two years, after which inoculation was admitted into private families, and pock-houses were considered no longer necessary. 1879 A. P. Marvin Hist. Lancaster 364 Dr. Israel Atherton..exposed himself to the hazard of disease and death..by setting up a ‘pock house’ or, ‘pest house’, as the hospital for inoculated patients was vulgarly termed. 1902 Med. News 21 June 1165/2 There were no hospitals, except pock-houses, and practically no medical organization. † pock-lymph n. Obsolete the lymph of a vesicle of cowpox, as formerly used in vaccination against smallpox. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > vaccine or antiserum > [noun] > vaccine > of cowpox or smallpox variolous matter1676 vaccine lymph1799 lymph1800 vaccine1800 humanized lymph1839 pock-lymph1876 calf-lymph1884 1876 Nature 2 Nov. 15/1 The efficacy of pock-lymph has been attributed..to the presence of small organisms of the nature of Mic[r]ococcus. 1881 J. Tyndall Ess. Floating Matter of Air 119 A quantity of matter, comparable in smallness to the pock-lymph held on the point of a lancet. pock-pit n. a pockmark; also in extended use. ΚΠ ?1775 Trials Felons Castle of York 38/2 She said he was a little thin-faced, and some pock pits. 1918 Evening State Jrnl. & Lincoln (Nebraska) Daily News 15 May 9/2 (advt.) Microscopic spurs, pock-pits and other roughnesses that are present in even the most highly polished bearings. † pock-pit v. Obsolete transitive to mark with pockmarks (figurative in quots.). ΚΠ 1843 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 53 225 It becomes a plague, a moral small-pox,..pockpitting his small modicum of brains. 1880 Times 13 Dec. 6/7 The cultivation and settlement upon those waste tracts that pock-pit the fair face of the island. † pock-pitten adj. [ < pock v. + pit v.¹ + -en suffix⁶; compare pock-pitted adj. at Compounds 1b] Obsolete = pock-arred adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox pock-broken1440 pock eaten?1536 pock-frettena1638 pock-fret1652 pock-holed1653 pockmarked1685 pock-fretted1693 pock frecken1695 pock-pittena1697 pock-freckled1714 pock-pitted1746 cribbage-faced1785 pock-arred1787 stub-faced1788 plague-spotted1819 brookita1908 a1697 J. Aubrey Brief Lives (1898) II. 196 His haire was of a very light flaxen, almost white... He was of a pale ill complexion and pock-pitten. 1808 Public Intelligencer (Chatham County, Georgia) 3 June 4/3 [He] is about 30 years of age,..very much pock pitten, which alteration in his countenance has been made since the year 1804. ?1888 A. Dobson in Coll. Poems (1913) 448 He's a queer little fellow, grave-featured, pock-pitten, Tho' they say, in his cups, he's as gay as a kitten. pock-rotten adj. (also pocks-rotten) now rare in a poor physical condition owing to the effects of syphilis; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > venereal disease > [adjective] > syphilis > infected with pockyc1350 French-sick1605 Frenchified1607 pock-rotten1616 poxed1678 Gallican1694 syphilitic1787 pox-fouleda1915 1616 W. Cornwallis Essayes Certaine Paradoxes sig. F You neuer see fat panches, and plumpt cheekes, and idle fellowes euer admitted into..the Hospitall and Lazer-house of the Pock-rotten aduenturers. 1682 in New-Eng. Historical & Geneal. Reg. (1898) LII. 27 A tall thin-faced fellow pocks rotten. 1988 C. D. Eby Road to Armageddon ii. 12 In some English circles there was a certain satisfaction in learning that the military legacy of their hereditary enemy was nothing more than a pock-rotten myth. † pockroyal n. humorous Obsolete a lesion occurring in syphilis. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > abscess > ulcer > of venereal disease dosser1547 buttons of Naples1575 chancrea1585 pock-sore1625 chank1686 pockroyal1694 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. v They are thus bescabb'd, bescurf'd..with Carbuncles, Pashes, and Pockroyals. † pock-sore n. Obsolete a sore caused by syphilis. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > abscess > ulcer > of venereal disease dosser1547 buttons of Naples1575 chancrea1585 pock-sore1625 chank1686 pockroyal1694 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes vii. 1308 The leaves of these [sc. the Caaroba tree] chewed and layd to the Pock-sore drye and heale it in such manner, that it neuer commeth againe. 1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. iii. 89 Neither must the Chyrurgion dresse their wounds, or pock-soars. pockstone n. English regional (rare) a hard greyish stone found in the coal measures of Staffordshire; cf. pox-stone n. at pox n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > [noun] > hard stone > pox-stone pox-stone1686 pockstone1739 1739 R. Wilkes in S. Shaw Hist. & Antiq. Staffordshire (1801) II. 85/1 Clay thus hardened is here [sc. in Wednesbury] called pock stone. 1902 C. G. Harper Holyhead Road ii. 33 Those foundations have an unusual interest, built as they are of the material called ‘pockstone’. † pock tree n. Obsolete rare = pockwood n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > guaiacum or lignum vitae pock tree?1533 guaiacum1553 lignum sanctum1553 pockwood tree1590 lignum vitae1597 wood of life1597 holy wood1712 lignum1899 ?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Di^v The pocke tre, gaiaqz ou eban. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). pockn.²int. Brit. /pɒk/, U.S. /pɑk/ Origin: An imitative or expressive formation. Etymology: Imitative. An abrupt percussive sound, as of a bat striking a ball, a bullet striking a wall, etc. Also as int., representing this sound. ΚΠ 1956 M. Swan Paradise Garden 89 The pock of ball on bat sounding across the village green. 1982 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 21 Sept. b8 Pock! Pock! Pock! The sound of field hockey sticks smacking the ball up and down the artificial turf carries over the ambient roar of the game. 1994 Harper's Mag. Sept. 48/2 Finally..the sensors recorded a pock. The number-three wall had received an impact..twelve feet above the forest floor. 1998 P. Gourevitch We wish to inform You v. 63 It was Sunday at the Cercle Sportif in Kigali—the smell of chicken on the grill, the sounds of swimmers splashing and the pock of tennis balls, [etc.]. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pockv. Brit. /pɒk/, U.S. /pɑk/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pock n.¹ Etymology: < pock n.¹ Compare earlier pocked adj. transitive. To mark or disfigure with pits or pocks; to pockmark.In early use usually in past participle. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > eruption > erupt in spots, etc. [verb (transitive)] > cover with eruptions measle1638 pock1841 the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > disfigurement > disfigure [verb (transitive)] > impair the beauty of > spot befleck1567 spot1791 pock1841 1841 Murray Let. in Smiles Mem. (1891) II. xxxv. 474 Houses..literally peppered and pocked from top to bottom with shot-marks. 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone III. vii. 111 This tufty flaggy ground, pocked with bogs and boglets. 1889 Lancet 29 June 1314/1 The posterior parts of both lungs were pocked with tubercle in the softening stage. 1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings 134 Tens of thousands of shells had pocked the dirty soil, scores of mine explosions had cratered it. 1958 G. Greene Our Man in Havana iii. i. 104 His face had been pocked and eroded like the pillars on the sea-front. 1981 A. Sillitoe Second Chance 56 Damp soil, pocked by cow hoofprints, was scattered with bits of dead twig. 2002 Cigar Aficionado Jan. 151/1 The plant is now nothing more than a ravaged stem, scars pocking the entire length where leaves have been removed, one by one. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹eOEn.²int.1956v.1841
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