Pock-marked means covered with small hollow scars. A pock-marked face.
It came from smallpox, which left exactly those scars on anybody who survived it. Vaccination is why pock-marked faces disappeared from Europe within a generation.
1adjectivepock-markedCovered with small hollow scars.
“The old road was pock-marked from one end to the other.”
pock-marked is a quality.
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire