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单词 pockmarked
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pockmarkedadj.

Brit. /ˈpɒkmɑːkt/, U.S. /ˈpɑkˌmɑrkt/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pockmark n., -ed suffix2.
Etymology: < pockmark n. + -ed suffix2. Compare later pockmark v.
1. Marked or disfigured with pockmarks.
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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
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.
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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).
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