/pok/ , n.
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. poke 2 .
[ bef. 1000; ME pokke, OE poc; c. G Pocke; perh. akin to OE pocca. See POKE 2 ]