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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  1. 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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  1. English dial. also kenspeckled; in pop. apprehension “speckled or marked so as to be conspicuous” (Halliwell): see kenspeck.
 

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