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单词 kenspeck
释义 kenspeck, a. dial.|ˈkɛnspɛk|
Also 8 -spack, 9 -spec, -spac.
[Origin obscure: the form agrees with Norw. kjennespak, Sw. känspak, quick at recognizing persons or things (cf. ON. kennispeki faculty of recognition); but the change from the active to a passive sense makes difficulties. Some have suggested confusion with conspicuous, but evidence is wanting. Kenspecked is given by Skinner (1671) and Ray (1674), and in Craven and other Northern glossaries.]
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1590Sir T. Cockaine Hunting D j, The most Buckes haue some kenspeck marke to knowe them by vpon their heads.1715Thoresby Leeds in Craven Dial., A convention at some noted oak, or to use a local word, kenspack ake.1841De Quincey Homer Wks. 1857 VI. 375 The Homeric metre..is certainly kenspeck, to use a good old English word—that is, recognisable.1855Robinson Whitby Gloss. s.v., ‘As kenspac as a cock on a church broach’.
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