Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
speckled .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Speckled; spotted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Speckled ,spotted .
Etymologies
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Either from peckle (though attested earlier), or an alteration of speckled.
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Examples
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Well, Rahm may sink his pearly whites into DiFi's hammy peckled calf (my fervent wish) -- or she may have ways of dealing with him that we don't know.
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Crewel to make the body of the fly, the feathers of a Drakes head, black or brown sheeps wool, or Hogs wool, or hair, thred of Gold, and of silver; silk of several colours (especially sad coloured to make the head:) and there be also other colour'd feathers both of birds and of peckled fowl.
The Complete Angler 1653 Izaak Walton 1638
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