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pouk.

A small boil, pimple, or pustule.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/puːk/
  1. A small boil, pimple, or pustule.

  2. A blister.

  3. A sty.

Where this word comes from

Apparently a dialectal variant of Middle English poke, a variant of pok, pock, pocke, from Old English poc, pocc (“pustule, pimple”), from Proto-West Germanic *pokk. More at pock.

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