Noun: zit
Sample Sentences
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I can't help thinking how little good all that working out did him. I think the only thing he ever got out of it was more zits. [1968, J. Lawrence Hagen, “Pinball 1959”, in Generation, volumes 20-21, page 182:]
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Brad: Sara, did you take my Clearasil again? Sara: I ran out of brown (paint). Brad: Great. How am I supposed to cover up my zits? [1987 Adventures in Babysitting, 00:06:35]
Nouns inflected like zit
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Uncertain origin, first attested as 1960s North American English teenagers' slang. Compare English chit (“pimple, wart”), German Zitze (“teat, nipple”). See: English Nouns '
chit', German Nouns '
Zitze'.