English Explanatory Dictionary

spreckle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A speck, spot, speckle; freckle.
verb
  1. To speckle; to become spotted or speckled.

Word forms

spreckle spreckles sprackle spreckling spreckled

Etymology

From Middle English sprekle, from Old English sprecel, spreccil, from Proto-West Germanic *sprekl, from Proto-Germanic *sprekla-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to strew, spread, sprinkle, scatter”).

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