kenspeckle
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Now he felt kenspeckle, not in any suit of material clothes but in a droll sense of nakedness.
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- Same as kenspeck, and the more common form.
[Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] Eng. Man. What kind of a Woman is it you enquire after? Gib. Geud troth, she's no Kenspeckle, she's aw in a Clowd [she had a Spanish veil over her]. Mrs. Centlivre, The Wonder, iii. I grant ye his face is kenspeckle, That the white o' his e'e is turn'd out. Nicol, Poems, II. 157. It is a kenspeckle hoof-mark, for the shoe was made by old Eekie of Caunobie —I would swear to the curve of the cawker. Scott, Monastery, xxxiv.
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Now he felt kenspeckle, not in any suit of material clothes but in a droll sense of nakedness.
— Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure -
My phiz is sae kenspeckle, that the very joiner's apprentice, whom Mrs. Burns employed to break up the parcel (I was out of town that day) knew it at once.
— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham -
"You may consider yourself 'geyan fine,' all covered over with Scotch plaid, but I wouldn't be so 'kenspeckle' for worlds!"
— Penelope's Experiences in Scotland -
"Naething kenspeckle," {1} said he; "plain, dacent claes.
— Catriona -
Red Donald brought with him a hundred claymores and he wasna half so kenspeckle (conspicuous).
— A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45
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- English dial. also kenspeckled; in pop. apprehension “speckled or marked so as to be conspicuous” (Halliwell): see kenspeck.