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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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sneck
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sn?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Noun
sneck (plural snecks)
- (Northern England, Scotland) A latch or catch.
- 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus 2014, p. 2:
- Lydia jerked about with the blind, fixing it first in one little sneck and then another, finally pulling it right to the bottom and pressing the button into the little brass hole.
- 1980, JL Carr, A Month in the Country, Penguin 2010, p. 3:
- The graveyard wall was in good repair, although, surprisingly, the narrow gate's sneck was smashed and it was held-to by a loop of binder twine.
- 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus 2014, p. 2:
- (Northern England, Scotland) The nose.
- A cut.
Verb
sneck (third-person singular simple present snecks, present participle snecking, simple past and past participle snecked)
- (transitive) To latch, to lock.
- (transitive) To cut.
Derived terms
References
- Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
- A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN
- Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
- Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
- A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [2]
- Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[3]
Anagrams
- Encks, necks
Scots
Verb
sneck (third-person singular present snecks, present participle sneckin, past sneckt, past participle sneckt)
- to click (with a computer mouse)
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