Dictionary

freckled en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈfɹɛkəld/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English frekled; equivalent to freckle + -ed.

Meanings

1. Having freckles; covered with freckles.
   • A smile grew across Jim's freckled face.
   • At any other time Jessamy would have laughed at the expressions that chased each other over his freckled face: crossness left over from his struggle with the baby; incredulity; distress; and finally delight. 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 122:
   • Pro. […]Then was this Iſland / (Saue for the Son, that he^([sic]) did littour heere, / A frekelld whelpe, hag-borne) not honour'd with / A humane ſhape. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 4:

Forms

Deriveds

freckled blenny · unfreckled · freckled duck · freckledness · nonfreckled · befreckled

Relateds

freckleface · freckle

Translations (32)

sv fräknig (having freckles) · pt sardento (having freckles) · bo པགས་ཁྲ (having freckles) · gl pencoso (having freckles) · fi pisamainen (having freckles) · es pecoso (having freckles) · ota چیل (having freckles) · sk pehavý (having freckles) · da fregnet (having freckles) · nn freknete (having freckles) · nv yistłʼin (having freckles) · ru весну́шчатый (having freckles) · ast pencosu (having freckles) · de sommersprossig (having freckles) · mi kōtiwhatiwha (having freckles) · he מנומש (having freckles) · nl sproetig (having freckles) · ro pistruiat (having freckles) · nl sproeterig (having freckles) · la lentīginōsus (having freckles) · pl piegowaty (having freckles) · bo གྲོ་ཐིག་ཅན (having freckles) · hu szeplős (having freckles) · mi kōpatapata (having freckles) · ca pigat (having freckles) · nb fregnet (having freckles) · la sparsus (having freckles) · roa-opt lentigoso (having freckles) · ru конопа́тый (having freckles) · it lentigginoso (having freckles) · ast pezosu (having freckles) · nb fregnete (having freckles)