Speck

Pronunciation

• IPA: /spek/
• Homophones: spec
• Rhymes: -É›k

From Old English specca ("small spot, stain").

Full definition of speck

Noun

1. (countable) A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc.
   a tiny speck of soot
• 2013-07-20, Out of the gloom, solar plant schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
2. (uncountable) A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
3. A very small thing; a particle; a whit.
   He has not a speck of money.
• 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.
4. A small etheostomoid fish, , common in the eastern United States.

Synonyms

• (small thing) See also .

Verb

1. (transitive) To mark with specks; to speckle.paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture
• 1667, John Milton, , 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,

Noun

1. The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
2. The fat of the hippopotamus.

Anagrams

• pecks