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speckly

speckly adjective: speckled; marked with speckles.

Adjective

speckly (comparative more speckly, superlative most speckly)

  1. speckled; marked with speckles
    • In some eggs the markings are very dense towards the large end, in others they are pretty uniformly distributed over the whole surface; in some they are very minute and speckly, in others they average the tenth of an inch in diameter.1889, Allan O. Hume, The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
    • The clouds hung unevenly over the climbing mountains, so that far snow-bestrewn headlands looked like the speckly backs of monsters stalking up into the sky.1913, Stephen Graham, A Tramp's Sketches

Forms of speckly

comparativemore speckly
superlativemost speckly

Origin of speckly

From speckle + -y.

Words formed from speckly

Questions about speckly

What does speckly mean?
Speckly means speckled; marked with speckles.
What part of speech is speckly?
Speckly is an adjective.

Words near speckly in the dictionary

  1. specklessness
  2. specklike
  3. speckliness
  4. speckling
  5. specklings
  6. speckly
  7. Speckman
  8. Speckmans
  9. specks
  10. specksioneer
  11. specksioneers

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