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peckled, a. Now dial.|ˈpɛk(ə)ld|
Also 6 peculd, 7 peackled, 8–9 pecklt.
[f. peckle n. or v.1 + -ed: or perh. directly from speckled.]
Spotted, variegated, speckled; parti-coloured. Also comb.
1552–3Inv. Ch. Gds., Staffs. in Ann. Lichfield (1863) IV. 20 Itm. iiij albes, on cope of saten bruges, & on of peculd silke. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 138 You must looke beside, that his toong bee not black, nor pecled. 1611Cotgr., Gelinote de bois, the pied, or peckled Pheasant, or wood Henne. 1615W. Lawson Country Housew. Gard. (1626) 2 When Summer cloathes your borders with greene and peckled colours. c1746Collier (Tim Bobbin) View Lancs. Dial. 5 The pecklt jump [coat]. 1858Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XIX. ii. 386 The ‘peckled-faced’ ones are rejected as breeding sheep. [Still in many English dialects.]
Hence ˈpeckledness, spottedness, speckledness.
1611Cotgr., Griveleure, pecklednesse, or specklednesse. |