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spreckled

adj · verb · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

adj

Meaning 1

Speckled.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • c.1882-1898, Francis James Child, Child's Collected Ballads, "What like were the fish, King Henry, my son? What like were the fish, my pretty little one?" "They were spreckled on the back and white on the belly; mother, make my bed soon, For I'm sick to the heart, and I fain wald lie down."

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2

verb

Meaning 2

simple past and past participle of spreckle

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, participle, past

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History

Etymology

From Middle English sprekled, equivalent to spreckle + -ed.

From spreckle + -ed.