Definitions for pocks

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Spelling: [pok]
IPA: /pɒk/

Pocks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in pocks (ckops).

Definitions for pocks

noun

  1. a pustule on the body in an eruptive disease, as smallpox.
  2. a mark or spot left by or resembling such a pustule.
  3. a small indentation, pit, hole, or the like.
  4. Scot. poke2 .

Origin of pocks

before 1000; Middle English pokke, Old English poc; cognate with German Pocke; perhaps akin to Old English pocca. See poke2

Examples for pocks

The infection is most active during the formation and duration of the pocks.

In the center of the screen was a large disk thickly marked with pocks.

Then the scabs rapidly fall off, and even the pocks soon disappear, the skin recovering its normal colour and freshness.

Ye wad steal the pocks frae an auld wife, and syne speir where she got them.

Some had abundance of purple petechiae among the pocks, the latter also being livid.

Buy linen, yarn, or anything; for these pocks are of absolute necessity—nothing can be done without them.

At last the mystery of the ages was solved: Who put the pocks in the face of the moon?

Shee replied, saying, thou mayest thank God thou art leane; for they feare thou hast the pocks: otherwise they would eate thee.

As soon as the pocks appear, rubbing must be avoided till the scabs are entirely gone.

The pocks are always much fewer than even in mild small-pox, sometimes even not more than twenty.

Word Value for pocks
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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