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pockmark

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Etymology

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From pock +‎ mark.

Noun

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pockmark (plural pockmarks)

  1. A mark or scar in the skin caused by a pock.
    • 1883, Charlotte M[ary] Yonge, “Whitehall before the Cobwebs”, in Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 4:
      When we were quite well and tolerably free from pock-marks [from smallpox], my father took us to London with him, []
  2. A crater in the seafloor caused by erupting gas or liquid.

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