spreckle

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A speck, spot, speckle; freckle. Northern-England,Scotland,dialectal
动词 v.
  1. To speckle; to become spotted or speckled. Northern-England,Scotland,ambitransitive,dialectal

词形变化

spreckles plural sprackle alternative spreckles present,singular,third-person spreckling participle,present spreckled participle,past spreckled past sprackle alternative

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
From Middle English *spreklen (suggested by past participle sprekled), from the noun above.
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