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Pock vs Pocky - What's the difference?

pock | pocky |

As a noun pock

is a pus filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease.

As a verb pock

is to scar or mark with pits.

As an adjective pocky is

covered in pock marks; specifically, pox-ridden, syphilitic.

pock

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A pus filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease.
  • Any pit, especially one formed as a scar

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To scar or mark with pits
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=February 23, author=Greg Myre, title=Palestinian Universities Dragged Into Factional Clashes, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=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. }}

    pocky

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Covered in pock marks; specifically, pox-ridden, syphilitic.
  • *1602 , (William Shakespeare), , act V scene 1:
  • *:Faith, if 'a be not rotten before 'a die (as we have many pocky corpses that will scarce hold the laying in) 'a will last you some eight year [...]
  • *1723 , Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury , IV:
  • *:‘You Damn'd Confounded Pocky Whore, I am glad we are met, for now will I give you as many Stripes as I've taken Pills, Bolus's, and other Hellish Slip-slops on your Account.’