sweat hole
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English swet hole, a partial calque of Old English swātþyrl (“pore”, literally “sweat-hole”). Cognate with German Schweißloch (“pore, sweat hole”), Danish swedehul (“pore”), Icelandic svitahola (“pore”).
Alternative forms
- sweat-hole
- swete-holle (obsolete)
Noun
sweat hole (plural sweat holes)
- (rare, archaic or nonstandard) An opening in the skin through which sweat is excreted; pore.
- 2012, Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann, Communicating with Virtual Worlds, page 140:
- Skin surface consists of four elements such as furrows, ridges, hair holes and sweat holes.
- 2022, Lodewijk C. Palm, Collected Letters Van Leeuwenhoek, volume 6, page 15:
- " […] if the sweat were found, to all appearance, to flow less freely through the supposed sweat-holes than elsewhere".
Etymology 2
From sweat + hole.
Noun
sweat hole (plural sweat holes)
- Alternative form of sweathole