Pock

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -É’k

Origin

From Old English pocc, from Proto-Germanic *puh- ("swell up, blow up") (compare Dutch pok, Low German Pocke).

Full definition of pock

Noun

1. A pus filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease.
2. Any pit, especially one formed as a scar

Verb

1. To scar or mark with pits
• 2007, February 23, Greg Myre, Palestinian Universities Dragged Into Factional Clashes, Just next door, at Al Azhar University, a rocket mangled the protective metal bars as it crashed through the windows of the president’s office this month, destroying his desk and pocking his walls with shrapnel.