spreckle

English

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

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

Noun

spreckle (plural spreckles)

  1. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A speck, spot, speckle; freckle.

Etymology 2

From Middle English *spreklen (suggested by past participle sprekled), from the noun above.

Verb

spreckle (third-person singular simple present spreckles, present participle spreckling, simple past and past participle spreckled)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, now chiefly dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To speckle; to become spotted or speckled.
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