different between freckle vs sunspot
freckle
English
Etymology
From Middle English freken, frekel, from Old Norse freknur pl (compare Swedish fräknar, Danish fregner), s-less variant of Old English sprecel from Proto-Germanic *sprekal? (“freckle”) (compare dialectal Norwegian sprekla, Middle High German spreckel), from Proto-Indo-European *sp(h)er(e)g- (“to strew, sprinkle”). Cognate with Albanian fruth (“measles”). More at spark. Related to spry, sprack.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f??k?l/
- Rhymes: -?k?l
Noun
freckle (plural freckles)
- A small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin.
- c. 1920s-1930s, Charlotte Druitt Cole, Runaway Jane:
- The rabbits came out from their burrows to peep,
- The wind whispered, "Hush! little Jane's gone to sleep!"
- And the spiders came spinning a curtain of lace,
- Lest the sun should make freckles on Jane's pretty face.
- c. 1920s-1930s, Charlotte Druitt Cole, Runaway Jane:
- Any small spot or discoloration.
- (Australia) A small sweet consisting of a flattish mound of chocolate covered in hundreds and thousands.
- (Australia, slang) The anus.
Synonyms
- ephelis
- lentigo
Related terms
- beauty mark
- dirt
- sun kiss
Translations
Verb
freckle (third-person singular simple present freckles, present participle freckling, simple past and past participle freckled)
- (transitive) To cover with freckles.
- (intransitive) To become covered with freckles.
Related terms
- freckled
- freckleface
- freckly
Translations
Anagrams
- flecker
freckle From the web:
- what freckles mean
- what freckles
- what freckles to worry about
- what freckles say about you
- what freckle does everyone have
- what freckles go away
- what freckle in tagalog
- what freckles do i have
sunspot
English
Etymology
sun +? spot
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s?nsp?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s?nsp?t/
- Hyphenation: sun?spot
Noun
sunspot (plural sunspots)
- (astronomy) A region on the sun's surface with a lower temperature than its surroundings and intense magnetic activity.
Translations
Anagrams
- unstops
sunspot From the web:
- what sunspot cycle are we in
- what sunspots look like
- what's sunspot cycle
- sunspot meaning
- what sunspots appear dark
- sunspots what are they
- sunspots what causes them
- what causes sunspots
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