pimple
意味
- にきび
例文
Her face is covered with pimples.
彼女の顔はにきびだらけだ。
I can't get rid of my pimples.
ニキビが治りません。
I'm getting little pimples on my face. I wonder if I've been getting enough sleep lately.
顔にぶつぶつができてる。最近、寝不足だからなぁ。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
Early Modern English pimple, pumple, from Middle English pymple, pympyl, of uncertain origin but probably a nasalized variant of Old English *pipel, *pypel, from Old English piplian, pyplian (“to break out in pimples, show eruptions”), probably related to Latin papula (“pimple, pustule”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pap- (“pock mark, nipple”)). Akin to Old English pipliġende (“having shingles”).