Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Covered with pimples; spotted.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pimpled.

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  • adjective Having pimples; pimpled

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  • adjective (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin

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Examples

  • Mr. Steitz is a management consultant now, but he remains a godfather figure to the Nordic combined athletes he first got to know as pimply teenagers, as well as to much of the staff at the United States Ski and Snowboard Association, which later adapted his plan for Nordic combined success as the template for success in all sports.

    WSJ.com: What's News US 2010

  • Mr. Steitz is a management consultant now, but he remains a godfather figure to the Nordic combined athletes he first got to know as pimply teenagers, as well as to much of the staff at the United States Ski and Snowboard Association, which later adapted his plan for Nordic combined success as the template for success in all sports.

    WSJ.com: What's News US 2010

  • This last comment did not get him any points, and may have generated the "pimply" comments above.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2002

  • I suspect him of being the kind of pimply-faced, ignorant young bore that I used to be myself and have always disliked-something about like Dusty Rhodes at the present without Dusty's amazing mind.

    Time For The Stars Heinlein, Robert A. 1956

  • After three hours 'marching nothing serious had happened and I found myself on safer ground with a "pimply" surface visible ahead, close under the slopes of the highlands.

    The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

  • So much so, in fact, that both the mates got restless; the skipper, who was a plain man, and given to calling a spade a spade, using the word "pimply" with what seemed to them unnecessary iteration.

    Many Cargoes 1903

  • We have lost most of our hairy coating, but whenever we get chilly, whether from cold or from fright, these little muscles of our hair bulbs contract and pull the hair glands of our skin up toward the surface, so that it looks all "pimply" or

    A Handbook of Health Woods Hutchinson 1896

  • He soon learns that the declaration of its people is more correct when they assure him that its surface is a "pimply" one.]

    The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 4, January, 1885 Various

  • Oh please, you have pretty well shown that you are still a pimply faced punk kid.

    Think Progress » Steele on serving as RNC chair: God has ‘placed me here for a reason.’ 2010

  • I hate trolls with miniscule d | ck and pimply testosterone issues like cch sharpton, jerkwaste, OSTLL and the others.

    Think Progress » Mullen finds ‘little resistance’ among troops to repealing DADT. 2010

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