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English
Etymology
From pock + mark.
Noun
pockmark (plural pockmarks)
- A mark or scar in the skin caused by a pock.
1883, Charlotte M 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 , my father took us to London with him,
- A crater in the seafloor caused by erupting gas or liquid.
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