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frecks

frecks is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 frecks

What is frecks the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Frecks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of freck.

Words near frecks in the dictionary

  1. freckling up
  2. frecklings
  3. Frecklington
  4. frecklish
  5. freckly
  6. frecks
  7. Frecăței
  8. Fred
  9. Fred Astaire
  10. Fred Bloggs
  11. Fred Karno's army

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Adapted from Wiktionary: frecks (page history and authors); freck (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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