spreckled
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English sprekled, equivalent to spreckle + -ed.
Adjective
spreckled (comparative more spreckled, superlative most spreckled)
- Speckled.
- 1822, Oliver Goldsmith, A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, volume 4:
- The black eagle : blackish ; the head and upper neck mixed with red ; the tail feathers, the first half white, spreckled with black, the other half blackish ; the leg feathers dirty white.
- c.1882-1898, Francis James Child, Child's Collected Ballads,
- "What like were the fish, King Henry, my son?
- What like were the fish, my pretty little one?"
- "They were spreckled on the back and white on the belly; mother, make my bed soon,
- For I'm sick to the heart, and I fain wald lie down."
- 1885, James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie: a Tale:
- Many are the cubs, and many are the spreckled fawns that I have reared with these old hands […]
Related terms
- sprengled
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