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[spek-uhl]

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noun

a small speck, spot, or mark, as on skin.

speckled coloring or marking.

verb (used with object)

to mark with or as with speckles.

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Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English; see speck, -le

Related forms

speck·led·ness, noun

un·speck·led, adjective

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speckle (ˈspɛk^əl)

—n
1.	a small or slight mark usually of a contrasting colour, as on the skin, a bird's plumage, or eggs

—vb
2.	(tr) to mark with or as if with speckles

[C15: from Middle Dutch spekkel; see speck]

'speckled

—*adj*

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speckle

c.1400 (implied in speckled), probably related to O.E. specca "small spot, speck" (see speck) or from a related M.Du. or M.H.G. word. The noun is first attested c.1440.

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"The river ... banks were seven or eight feet high, and densely covered with white and black spruce,—which, I think, must be the commonest trees thereabouts,—fir, arbor-vitæ, canoe, yellow and black birch, rock, mountain, and a few red maples, beech, black and mountain ash, the large-toothed aspen, many civil-looking elms, now imbrowned, along the stream, and at first a few hemlocks also.... The immediate shores were also densely covered with the speckled alder, red osier, shrubby willows or sallow, and the like. There were a few yellow lily pads still left, half-drowned, along the sides, and sometimes a white one. Many fresh tracks of moose were visible where the water was shallow, and the lily stems were freshly bitten off by them."

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