Word of the Day Archive
Tuesday September 7, 2010
kenspeckle \KEN-spek-uhl\
, adjective:
Conspicuous; easily seen or recognized.
He feared that he was too kenspeckle to escape.
-- Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Stickit Minister: And Some Common Men
Rose took her seat, proud of herself for not succumbing to her kenspeckle habit of stretching the truth far beyond its borders.
-- Liz Curtis Higgs, Fair Is the Rose
Kenspeckle comes from Scottish and Northern English dialects, ultimately relating back to Norwegian.
Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for kenspeckle