freckled

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English frekled; equivalent to freckle +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɛkəld/

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Adjective

freckled (comparative more freckled, superlative most freckled)

1. Having freckles; covered with freckles.

   A smile grew across Jim's freckled face.

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 4:

     Pro. […] Then was this Iſland / (Saue for the Son, that he^[sic] did littour heere, / A frekelld whelpe, hag-borne) not honour'd with / A humane ſhape.

   • 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 122:

     At any other time Jessamy would have laughed at the expressions that chased each other over his freckled face: crossness left over from his struggle with the baby; incredulity; distress; and finally delight.

Derived terms

• freckled blenny
• freckled duck

 

Related terms

• freckle, freckleface

Translations

having freckles

• Asturian: pezosu (ast), pencosu (ast)
• Catalan: pigat
• Danish: fregnet
• Dutch: sproetig (nl), sproeterig
• Finnish: pisamainen (fi)
• German: sommersprossig (de)
• Hebrew: מנומש (m'numásh)
• Hungarian: szeplős (hu)
• Italian: lentigginoso
• Latin: sparsus, lentīginōsus
• Maori: kōpatapata, kōtiwhatiwha
• Navajo: yistłʼin
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fregnet, fregnete

  Nynorsk: freknete

• Ottoman Turkish: چیل (çil)
• Polish: piegowaty (pl)
• Portuguese: sardento (pt)
• Romanian: pistruiat (ro)
• Russian: весну́шчатый (ru) (vesnúščatyj), конопа́тый (ru) (konopátyj) (colloquial)
• Slovak: pehavý
• Spanish: pecoso (es)
• Swedish: fräknig (sv)
• Tibetan: གྲོ་ཐིག་ཅན (gro thig can), པགས་ཁྲ (pags khra)