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kenspeckle, a. Sc. and north. dial.|ˈkɛnspɛk(ə)l|
Also -speckled; cf. prec.
[See prec.; the ending may be -le 1, as in brittle, etc.]
Easily recognizable; conspicuous.
1714S. Centlivre Wonder iii, Eng. Man...What kind of a Woman is it you enquire after? Gib. Geud troth, she's ne Kenspekle, she's aw in a Clowd. 1795Burns Let. to G. Thomson May, My phiz is sae kenspeckle that the very joiner's apprentice..knew it at once. 1820Scott Monast. xxxiv, It is a kenspeckle hoof-mark, for the shoe was made by old Eckie of Canonbie. 1862Darwin Let. 25 Jan. in Life (1887) II. 385 Your notion of the Aristocrat being kenspeckle..is new to me. 1916J. Buchan Greenmantle xx. 259 The immediate front of a battle is a bit too public for any one to lie hidden in by day, especially when two or three feet of snow make everything kenspeckle. 1930H. S. Walpole Rogue Herries ii. 392 He..wondered what it must be for such a boy to be in charge of so wild and tumultuous and kenspeckle an army. 1971Lancet 6 Nov. 1028/2 He [sc. a cockerel] was..a kenspeckle figure in the neighbourhood [sc. in Scotland]. 1973Perthshire Advertiser 8 Aug. 13/2 There have been others..who, if not as kenspeckle and dynamic in the public eye, have given of their time, talents and means. |