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freckle

Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɛkl̩/

The English word “freckle” has 6 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin.
  2. Any small spot which has a different colour from its background.
  3. A small sweet consisting of a flattish mound of chocolate covered in hundreds and thousands.
  4. The anus.

verb

  1. To cover (someone; or something, such as the skin) with freckles (noun sense 1 and noun sense 2).
  2. To become covered with freckles.

Etymology

The noun is derived from Late Middle English fracle, frekel, frekle (“freckle; pimple; fleck of colour in a stone”), a variant of frakne, freken (“freckle; other skin blemish”) (whence frecken (“(obsolete except UK, dialectal) freckle”)), from Old Norse freknur pl (compare Faroese frøknur, Danish fregner, Swedish fräknar), an s-less variant of Proto-Germanic *sprekalą (“freckle”) (compare Middle…

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