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)

  1. (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)

  1. Alternative form of sweathole
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