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peckled

/ˈpɛkəld/

peckled adjective: speckled, spotted.

Adjective

peckled (comparative more peckled, superlative most peckled)

  1. (UK, dialectal) Speckled, spotted.
    • Jacob the patriarch, by force of imagination, made peckled lambs, laying peckled rods before his sheep., vol.I, New York, 2001, p.254
    • […]the herons and the cranes and the coots and the didappers and the water hens and the teals and the curs and the drakes and the sheldrakes and the peckled fowls and the flocking sheep, all, all the sirenic and the not-so-sirenic sounds that they let out at the instant of their near-deaths.1972, Edna O'Brien, Night, Mariner Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 30

Forms of peckled

comparativemore peckled
superlativemost peckled

Origin of peckled

Either from peckle (though attested earlier), or an alteration of speckled.

Questions about peckled

What does peckled mean?
Peckled means speckled, spotted.
What part of speech is peckled?
Peckled is an adjective.
How do you pronounce peckled?
Peckled is pronounced /ˈpɛkəld/ (UK).

Words near peckled in the dictionary

  1. Peckinpaugh
  2. Peckinpaughs
  3. peckish
  4. peckishly
  5. peckishness
  6. peckled
  7. Peckleton
  8. Pecknarm
  9. peckproof
  10. pecks
  11. pecks at

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