pock

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

pock, n. [OE. pokke, AS. pocc, poc; akin to D. pok, G. pocke, and perh. to E. poke a pocket. Cf. Pox.].

 A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases.  [1913 Webster]
"Of pokkes and of scab every sore."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pock, n. (also pock-mark)
1 a small pus-filled spot on the skin, esp. caused by chickenpox or smallpox.
2 a mark resembling this.

Idiom

pock-marked bearing marks resembling or left by such spots.

Derivative

pocky adj.

Etymology

OE poc f. Gmc

THESAURUS

pock

abscess, alveolation, alveolus, aposteme, bed sore, birthmark, blackhead, blain, bleb, blemish, blister, boil, bubo, bulla, bump, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, check, chilblain, cicatrix, cold sore, comedo, corn, crack, crater, craze, cyst, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, dent, depress, dilatation, dilation, dimple, dint, disfiguration, disfigurement, distension, distortion, edema, engrave, eschar, fault, feel, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, finish, fistula, flaw, freckle, furrow, furuncle, furunculus, gathering, gouge, grain, granular texture, gumboil, hemangioma, hemorrhoids, hickey, honeycomb, impress, impression, imprint, indent, indentation, indention, indenture, intumescence, keloid, kibe, kink, knub, lentigo, lesion, lump, milium, mole, nap, needle scar, nevus, notch, nub, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, petechia, pile, piles, pimple, pit, pockmark, polyp, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, press in, print, protuberance, punch, punch in, pustule, recess, rift, rising, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, set back, set in, shag, soft chancre, sore, split, stamp, stigma, strawberry mark, structure, sty, sunken part, suppuration, surface, surface texture, swell, swelling, swollenness, tamp, texture, track, tubercle, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, twist, ulcer, ulceration, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, weal, weave, welt, wen, wheal, whelk, whitehead, whitlow, woof, wound

ROGET THESAURUS

pock

Convexity

N convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion, camber, cahot, thank-ye-ma'am, swell, intumescence, tumour, tumor, tubercle, tuberosity, excrescence, hump, hunch, bunch, boss, embossment, hub, hubble, tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump, sugar loaf, bow, mamelon, molar, belly, corporation, pot belly, gut, withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange, pimple, zit, wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain, boil, airbubble, blob, papule, verruca, papilla, nipple, teat, tit, titty, boob, knocker, pap, breast, dug, mammilla, proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle, schnoz, peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag, cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves, pilaster, relief, relievo, cameo, bassorilievo, mezzorilevo, altorivievo, low relief, bas relief, high relief, hill, cape, promontory, mull, forehead, foreland, point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur, naze, ness, convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting, bossed, embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy, clavate, clavated, claviform, hummocky, moutonne, mammiliform, papulous, papilose, hemispheric, bulbous, bowed, arched, bold, bellied, tuberous, tuberculous, tumous, cornute, odontoid, lentiform, lenticular, gibbous, club shaped, hubby, hubbly, knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform, subclavate, torose, ventricose, verrucose, salient, in relief, raised, repousse, bloated, (expanded).