plouk

English

Alternative forms

• plook, pluke

Etymology

Of uncertain origin, possibly related to plug. Compare Scots plook, plouk. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “see OED”)

Noun

plouk (plural plouks)

1. (now dialectal, Scotland, Northern England) A pimple or spot.
   • 1618, Patri[c]k Anderson, The Colde Spring of Kinghorne Craig […], Edinburgh: Thomas Finlason, unnumbered page:

     No liquor hath been tryed more excellent for itching, and heat of the face with plouks, & puſtuls then this water, it being both drunck and put thervpon.

Further reading

• “plouk, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Scots

Noun

plouk (plural plouks)

1. alternative form of plook (“spot, pimple, pustule”)