| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  p k |
| NOUN: | 1. A pustule caused by smallpox or a similar eruptive disease. 2. A mark or scar left in the skin by such a pustule; a pockmark. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: pocked, pock·ing, pocks
To mark with pocks; pit. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English pokke, from Old English pocc. | | OTHER FORMS: | pock y —ADJECTIVE
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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