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Resembling a speck, minuscule.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 19thC, John Ruskin, in 1909, The Works of John Ruskin, Volume 37, page 116, Far mightier, he, than any planet ; burning with his own planetary host doubtless round him ; and, on some speckiest of the specks of them, evangelical persons thinking our sun was made for them.
- 1976, National Association of Dental Laboratories (U.S.), NADL Journal, Volume 23, page 99, Nor did anyone even remotely suspect that an atom was anything but an atom and therefore the very speckiest particle of matter in existence.
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Marked with specks; speckled.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1952, National Research Council of Canada Associate Committee on Grain Research, Collected Papers of the Associate Committee on Grain Research, Volume 8, page 413, [...] macaroni from the larger size fractions was orange in color and somewhat speckier, while that from the smaller sizes was increasingly brownish and opaque.
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Spectacular.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, not-comparable
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Synonym of spectacular mark.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, informal
Qualifier: Australian rules football
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Synonyms: spectacular mark
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One who wears spectacles.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, informal, often
Examples
- 2010, Dick Lynas, Pies Were for Thursdays, AuthorHouse UK, page 138, It was bad enough having to wear a satin suit for one day when I made my First Communion. There was no chance of me being seen in those NHS specs and accordingly being mocked as a ‘specky four eyes’ so I took every chance I could not to wear them.
- 2011, John Sugden, Scum Airways: Inside Football′s Underground Economy, Mainstream eBooks, unnumbered page, Then turning to his mate next to me at the bar, he explains, ‘I only took his specks off because he was with his girlfriend. Then when he′s surrounded by security, he has another go, don′t he! Well, he′s just cost the speckies of the world thousands, cos next time a specky has a go I′ll smash his glasses all over his face.’
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From speck + -y.
Clipping of spectacular + -y.
Clipping of spectacles (“eyeglasses”) + -y.
