Word.ws English Dictionary

speccy

speccy adjective: bespectacled.

Adjective

speccy (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial, derogatory) bespectacled
    • […] perhaps being taunted as "speccy" or "four eyes" or "blindy".1971, Ivor Felstein, A Change of Face and Figure
    • Her schoolmates called her "speccy four-eyes" and hid her glasses. She grew up feeling there was something wrong with her as a person.2004, Bennett-Levy et al, Oxford Guide to Behavioural Experiments in Cognitive Therapy

Noun (1)

speccy (plural speccies)

  1. (informal, Australian rules football) Synonym of spectacular mark.

Proper noun capitalized: Speccy

the Speccy

  1. (informal) The Spectator, a British current-affairs magazine.
    • It's a while since I wrote anything for the Speccy, so I wouldn't know.2007, Richard Littlejohn, Littlejohn's Britain, page 208

Noun (2) capitalized: Speccy

Speccy (plural Speccies)

  1. (UK, colloquial) A Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer.
    • TETRIS (Mirrorsoft)
      Yes, it's the game that makes Amiga and ST owners look at your Spectrum with real jealousy, 'cos the Speccy version of this classic Russian reaction-tester out performs the 16-bit ports every time.1991, Stuart Campbell, "The YS Top 100 Speccy Games of All Time (Ever!)" (in Your Sinclair magazine)
    • Before you sit down in front of your Speccy to play an adventure, equip yourself with a pencil, eraser and plenty of paper. This so that you may draw a 'map' of the adventure as you move around.1992 October, Larry Horsfield, “The SU Guide to Playing and Writing Adventure Games”, in Sinclair User, number 128

Synonyms of speccy

Forms of speccy

Noun
pluralspeccies
pluralSpeccies
Proper noun
alternative formSpeccie

Origin of speccy

From spec (“spectacles”) + -ie.

From spec (“spectacular”) + -ie.

Diminutive forms with + -y.

Questions about speccy

What does speccy mean?
Speccy means bespectacled.
What part of speech is speccy?
Speccy can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.

Words near speccy in the dictionary

  1. Speccie
  2. speccies
  3. speccing
  4. speccing out
  5. speccing up
  6. speccy
  7. Spece
  8. Speces
  9. SPECI
  10. special
  11. special administrative region

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: speccy (page history and authors); Speccy (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-uk-speccy.ogg.

Cite this entry: “speccy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/speccy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.