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from The Century Dictionary.
- Freckled.
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Examples
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How would you like to hear yur right name now, Ghazi Power, my tristy minstrel, if yur not freckened of frank comment? —
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Don't be freckened; you've a right to be bould in a good cause.
The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Hall Caine 1892
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An 'whinever he went apast my father, he thought he felt a great scent of brimstone, an' it was that that freckened him entirely; for he knew it was brimstone that was burned in hell, savin 'your presence.
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"But any way there's no use in bein 'freckened now," says he; "for if I am to die, I may as well parspire undaunted," says he.
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` The ould gandher was the first out, and the priest and Terence kem next, pantin 'an' blowin 'an' more than half dhrounded, an 'his Raverince was so freckened wid the droundin' he got, and wid the sight iv the sperit, as he consaved, that he wasn't the better of it for a month.
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"Shure I'm not a bit freckened," he said; "but, sor, there's danger to us all if we go on there."
Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers George Manville Fenn 1870
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"Shure and what'd I be freckened of?" he said angrily.
Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers George Manville Fenn 1870
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An 'whinever he went apast my father, he thought he felt a great scent of brimstone, an' it was that that freckened him entirely; for he knew it was brimstone that was burned in hell, savin 'your presence.
The Purcell Papers — Volume 1 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
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"But any way there's no use in bein 'freckened now," says he; "for if I am to die, I may as well parspire undaunted," says he.
The Purcell Papers — Volume 1 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
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Raverince was so freckened wid the droundin 'he got, and wid the sight iv the sperit, as he consaved, that he wasn't the better of it for a month.
The Purcell Papers — Volume 3 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
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