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speck

Pronunciation: /spɛk/

The English word “speck” has 8 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A tiny spot or particle, especially of dirt.
  2. A very small amount; a particle; a whit.
  3. A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
  4. Fat; lard; fat meat.
  5. A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
  6. The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
  7. The fat of the hippopotamus.

verb

  1. To mark with specks; to speckle.

Etymology

From Middle English spekke, from Old English specca (“small spot, stain”), from the same ultimate source as Proto-Germanic *sprakô (“spark”). Cognate with Low German spaken (“to spot with wet”).

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