plouk
/pluːk/Now Scottish and English regional (northern )
noun
1A pimple, a spot.
2 Scottish. A small knob situated a short distance below the brim of a metal measuring vessel to show the point of exact measure. Now historical.
Origin
Late Middle English; earliest use found in Guy de Chauliac's Grande Chirurgie. Origin uncertain; perhaps compare Middle Low German forms with voiceless final consonant at plug, but these do not show an exact semantic or formal parallel. (For evidence of a possible loan in Older Scots from such Middle Low German forms see Dict. Older Sc. Tongue s.v. pluk-, ploukin(g vbl. n.1 ‘the action of inserting a plug or wedge into a hole or aperture in a barrel in order to stop it up’.).
- melanised
- melanism
- melanite
- melanization
- melanize
- melanized
- melanoblast
- melanocarcinoma
- melanocerite
- melanochalcite
- Melanochroi
- melanochroic
- melanocratic
- melanocyte
- melanocyte-stimulating hormone
- melanocytic
- melanoderm
- melanoderma
- melanodermia
- melanodermic
- melanogen
- melanogenesis
- melanoid
- melanoma
- melanomatous