Since I recently talked about the word pimple, I started wondering where the word zit comes from. Almost every teenager has bought, at one point in their lives, a zit remedy without once knowing what the term even refers to.

No one really knows the origin, but it seems that it originated in the 1960s and may have come from the German word “Zitse” which means teat or nipple. I guess zits can look like that sometimes!