单词 | pockmarked |
释义 | pockmarkedadj. 1. Marked or disfigured with pockmarks. 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 1685 T. Sprat Proof Horrid Conspiracy 94 [He] is a little Man Pock-marked, and wears a Periwig. 1756 in New Jersey Archives (1898) XX. 16 Terence Milford,..has short brown hair, a little pock-marked. 1772 Epist. to Alderman G. Faulkner 21 [He] is a clergyman, very negligent in his dress, and hath a pock marked face. 1820 J. F. Cooper Precaution II. iv. 43 He appeared to be about fifty years of age, strongly pock-marked, with a stiff military air. a1854 E. Grant Mem. Highland Lady (1988) I. xvi. 347 He introduced me to a very plain small, pock marked man. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xix. 192 What would you think of a man who looked at some decayed, blind, toothless, pock-marked Cleopatra. 1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xxix. 449 He was a Tyrolese, broad, rather flat-cheeked, with a pale, pock-marked skin and flourishing moustaches. 1991 C. Barker Imajica i. 7 This was his perfect nightmare, to be facing scabby, pock-marked men like these, who had nothing to lose if they gutted him on the spot. 2. In extended use: pitted with holes, scarred; marked at intervals by something disfiguring. ΚΠ 1852 Harper's Mag. Feb. 400/2 Hundreds of the houses had their windows smashed;..the walls pockmarked with bullets. 1899 Stead in Rev. of Reviews May 493/2 The whole area is pock-marked with public houses. 1908 Flag (Union Jack Club) 39 The floors lower down were pock-marked with splashes of the liquid. 1925 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 228/2 The chalky soil was pockmarked with shell craters. 1933 A. G. Macdonell England, their England xiii. 227 There was a pock-marked dart-board in one corner. 1964 A. Wykes Gambling i. 10 He risked his own somewhat pockmarked career. 1984 A. Oakley Taking it like Woman (1985) 202 The sea is pock-marked silver, a second-hand mirror with portions of its sheen erased by the efforts of time. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1685 |
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