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frecking

frecking is the present participle and gerund of freck.

Meaning of freck

Verb

freck (third-person singular simple present frecks, present participle frecking, simple past and past participle frecked)

  1. To cover (someone or something) with small marks or spots; to dapple, to freckle, to speckle.
    • There ſhee a bloodleſſe Statue ſate, all freckt; / Her ſpotted minde the Marble did infect.1626, Ovid, “The Second Booke”, in George Sandys, transl., Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished […], London: […] William Stansby, →OCLC, page 43
  2. (figuratively) To scatter objects over (something).
    • The eve put on her sweetest shroud, / The summer-dress she's often in, / Freck'd with white and purple cloud, / Dappled like a leopard's skin; […]1821, John Clare, “[Poems.] Rosy Jane.”, in The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems, volume II, London: […] [T. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey, […]; and E[dward] Drury, […], →OCLC, page 3

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Questions about frecking

What is frecking the present participle and gerund of?
Frecking is the present participle and gerund of freck.

Words near frecking in the dictionary

  1. Frechs
  2. Frechtman
  3. Frechtmans
  4. freck
  5. frecked
  6. frecking
  7. freckle
  8. freckle up
  9. freckled
  10. freckled blennies
  11. freckled blenny

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