Italian word of the day
| Origin | From the Latin word verrūca, “wart”, and rufŭlus, “reddish” |
| Translation | Pimple |
| Pronunciation | /ˈbrufolo/ |
Brufolo
Pimple
Different forms of brufolo
Like most nouns in Italian, brufolo has two articles (definite or indefinite articles) and two numbers (singular or plural).
Un brufolo
A pimple
Dei brufoli
Some pimples
Il brufolo
The pimple
I brufoli
The pimples
Examples
Giovanni si è svegliato con un brufolo proprio sul naso.
Giovanni woke up with a pimple right on his nose.
Laura si è lamentata di un brufolo doloroso sul mento.
Laura complained about a painful pimple on her chin.
Quando Federico vide il brufolo, decise di non toccarlo per evitare cicatrici.
When Federico saw the pimple, he decided not to touch it to avoid scarring.
Related words
You can squeeze pimples, schiacciare i brufoli, and try to cover them, coprire i brufoli. For that purpose, you might use a correttore, a concealer.
Ho coperto il brufolo con il correttore prima di uscire.
I covered the pimple with concealer before going out.
People, usually teenagers, who constantly have many pimples on their face are said to suffer from acne (the word is the same in both Italian and English). A more colloquial synonym for brufolo in Italian is foruncolo, which translates to “boil, foruncle” and comes from foro, “hole”, literally meaning “little hole”.
Ti è spuntato un foruncolo sulla fronte.
A pimple has sprouted on your forehead.
Blackheads are called punti neri on a daily basis (“black dots”), but they are formally called comedoni.
Questa crema è molto pesante e mi causa la comparsa di punti neri.
This cream is very heavy and causes me to get blackheads.
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