spreckled

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English sprekled, equivalent to spreckle +‎ -ed.

Adjective

spreckled (comparative more spreckled, superlative most spreckled)

1. Speckled.
   • 1822, Oliver Goldsmith, A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, volume 4:

     The black eagle : blackish ; the head and upper neck mixed with red ; the tail feathers, the first half white, spreckled with black, the other half blackish ; the leg feathers dirty white.

   • c.1882-1898, Francis James Child, Child's Collected Ballads,

     "What like were the fish, King Henry, my son?

     What like were the fish, my pretty little one?"

     "They were spreckled on the back and white on the belly; mother, make my bed soon,

     For I'm sick to the heart, and I fain wald lie down."

   • 1885, James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie: a Tale:

     Many are the cubs, and many are the spreckled fawns that I have reared with these old hands […]

Related terms

• sprengled

Etymology 2

From spreckle +‎ -ed.

Verb

spreckled

1. simple past and past participle of spreckle