different between sleck vs speck
sleck
English
Alternative forms
- slekk
Etymology
From Middle English slecken, slekken, from Old Norse slekkja, sløkkva (“to extinguish, quench, slake”), from Proto-Germanic *slakjan?, *slakwijan? (“to slake”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)l?g- (“weak, faint, limp”). Cognate with Old English sle??an, slæ??an (“to make slack or slow, delay”).
Verb
sleck (third-person singular simple present slecks, present participle slecking, simple past and past participle slecked)
- Alternative form of slake
- to sleck lime
- (dialectal) To slake; allay; cool; quench; extinguish.
- (Scotland) To groan when overloaded with food; sigh with repletion.
Related terms
- slecken
- sletch
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speck
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp?k/
- Homophone: spec
- Rhymes: -?k
Etymology 1
From Middle English spekke, from Old English specca (“small spot, stain”). Cognate with Low German spaken (“to spot with wet”).
Noun
speck (plural specks)
- A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc.
- A very small thing; a particle; a whit.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:modicum
- a. 1864, Walter Savage Landor, quoted in 1971, Ernest Dilworth, Walter Savage Landor, Twayne Publishers, page 88,
- Onward, and many bright specks bubble up along the blue Aegean; islands, every one of which, if the songs and stories of the pilots are true, is the monument of a greater man than I am.
- (zoology) A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
Translations
Verb
speck (third-person singular simple present specks, present participle specking, simple past and past participle specked)
- (transitive) To mark with specks; to speckle.
- paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1991, Stephen Orgel, Jonathan Goldberg (editors), The Major Works, 2003, paperback, page 534,
- Each flower of slender stalk, whose head though gay / Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold, / Hung drooping unsustained,
Etymology 2
From earlier specke, spycke (probably reinforced by Dutch spek, German Speck), from Middle English spik, spyk, spike, spich, from Old English spic (“bacon; lard; fat”), from Proto-Germanic *spikk?, *spik? (“bacon”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Späk, Dutch spek, German Speck, Icelandic spik.
Noun
speck (uncountable)
- Fat; lard; fat meat.
- (uncountable) A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
- The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
- The fat of the hippopotamus.
Translations
Anagrams
- pecks
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Speck, from Middle High German spec, from Old High German spek, from Proto-Germanic *spik? (“bacon”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sp?k/
- Hyphenation: spèck
Noun
speck m (invariable)
- speck (type of ham)
- Hypernym: salume
Further reading
- Speck Alto Adige on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
References
- speck in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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