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speckly en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From speckle + -y.

Meanings

1. speckled; marked with speckles
   • The clouds hung unevenly over the climbing mountains, so that far snow-bestrewn headlands looked like the speckly backs of monsters stalking up into the sky. 1913, Stephen Graham, A Tramp's Sketches:
   • In some eggs the markings are very dense towards the large end, in others they are pretty uniformly distributed over the whole surface; in some they are very minute and speckly, in others they average the tenth of an inch in diameter. 1889, Allan O. Hume, The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1:
   • April 3 2010, Huffington Post - Fresh Eggs, Grace, Rebirth, & Popovers Sometimes they're just brown and speckly; sometimes they're pointy, sometimes petite. But always their yolks are plump and perky and marigold-yellow.

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Deriveds

speckliness