pockmark
Syllables: pock·mark/ˈpɒk.mɑːk/US/ˈpɑkˌmɑɹk/
pockmark noun: a mark or scar in the skin caused by a pock.
Noun
pockmark (plural pockmarks)
- A mark or scar in the skin caused by a pock.
- When we were quite well and tolerably free from pock-marks [from smallpox], my father took us to London with him, […]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
- A crater in the seafloor caused by erupting gas or liquid.
pockmark meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
pockmark in Tamil
- அம்மைவடு
pockmark in Malayalam
- mark, scar, pit
- കുത്ത്, വെട്ട്, പുള്ളി, വസൂരിക്കുത്ത്, മസൂരിക്കല, വസൂരിക്കല
Forms of pockmark
| plural | pockmarks |
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Origin of pockmark
From pock + mark.
Words formed from pockmark
Questions about pockmark
- What does pockmark mean?
- Pockmark means a mark or scar in the skin caused by a pock.
- What is pockmark in Tamil?
- Pockmark in Tamil is அம்மைவடு. See Pockmark meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is pockmark?
- Pockmark is a noun.
- How do you pronounce pockmark?
- Pockmark is pronounced /ˈpɒk.mɑːk/ (UK).
- What is the plural of pockmark?
- The plural of pockmark is pockmarks.
Words near pockmark in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pockmark (page history and authors); pockmark (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pockmark (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); pockmark (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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