speck

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tiny spot or particle, especially of dirt.
    — a tiny speck of soot
  2. Fat; lard; fat meat. uncountable
  3. A very small amount; a particle; a whit.
    — He has not a speck of money.
  4. A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol. uncountable
  5. A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
  6. The blubber of whales or other marine mammals. uncountable
  7. The fat of the hippopotamus. uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To mark with specks; to speckle. transitive
    — paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture

词形变化

specks plural specks present,singular,third-person specking participle,present specked participle,past specked past

词汇关系

衍生词
flyspeck speckless specklike specky

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
From earlier specke, spycke (probably reinforced by Dutch spek, German Speck), from Middle English spik, spyk, spike, spich, from Old English spic (“bacon; lard; fat”), from Proto-West Germanic *spik, from Proto-Germanic *spiką (“bacon”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Späk, Dutch spek, German Speck, Icelandic spik.
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