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spreckled, ppl. a. Now dial.|ˈsprɛk(ə)ld|
Also 6 sprekled.
[Cf. prec. and G. (obs. or dial.) gespreckelt (also sprecklicht, -lig, etc.), Da. spraglet, MSw. spräklott, Norw. spreklutt, Icel. spreklóttr.]
Speckled.
1535Coverdale Jer. xii. 8 As a spreckled byrde, a byrde of dyuerse coloures. ― Zech. i. 8 Behynde him were there reade, spreckled and whyte horses. 1786Burns To Mount. Daisy ii, The bonie Lark,..Wi's spreckl'd breast. 1825–in dial. glossaries (N. Cy., Yks., Lancs., Linc., E. Ang., Nhp., Warw.). 1833Wauldby Farm Rep. 109 in Husb. (L.U.K.) III, Three bushels of the spreckled or partridge peas. 1850J. Struthers Poet. Wks. I. p. cxxiv, The spreckled daisy and the pale primrose. a1867Mrs. E. Smith Mem. Highl. Lady x. (1898) 177 He was called the Spreckled Laird on account of being marked with the smallpox. |