Pocke

16th century, from Middle Low German pocke, from Proto-Germanic *pukkǭ, *pukkaz (“pock, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bʰew- (“to grow, swell”). Cognate with Dutch pok, English pock. Displaced the variants Poche, Pfoche, which may go back to related Proto-Germanic *pukô, but are perhaps merely inadequate adaptations of the Low German form. The native High German word for “pock” is Blatter.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔkə/
• Hyphenation: Po‧cke

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1. pock
2. (in the plural) pox, smallpox

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• Blatter, Blattern (dated)

See the derivatives at Pocken.

• pockennarbig

• “Pocke” in Duden online
• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.