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▪ I. specky, a.1|ˈspɛkɪ|
Also 7 speckie, 8 speckey.
[f. speck n.1 + -y.]
Covered or marked with specks; speckled, spotted; having specks or spots of disease, discoloration, etc.
1382Wyclif Gen. xxx. 33 Alle that weren not dyuerse, and speckid [v.rr. specky, specke]. 1587L. Mascall Govt. Cattle, Sheepe (1596) 206 Although the skinne be specky and spotted of diuers colours. 1763W. Lewis Phil. Comm. Arts 65 In some parts it appeared specky or full of small holes. 1793Trans. Soc. Enc. Arts, etc. XI. 17 For where the leaves curl, the fruit is always specky. 1856Morton Cycl. Agric. I. 48/1 When ground with wheat, they render the flour ‘specky’. 1865Intell. Observ. No. 37. 18 A turbid or specky appearance. 1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 34 Pieces [of steel] that have been cleaned in dirty benzine..will become specky in blueing.
transf.1858Dublin Univ. Mag. LII. 264 A style which might technically be termed specky and disfigured by some affectations which honest criticism must deplore.
▪ II. ˈspecky, a.2 colloq.
[f. specs + y1.]
Bespectacled.
1956R. Jenkins Guests of War iv. i. 167 The unbraw unlovable puke married to yon specky gasping smout of a barber. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. ix. 172 A girl or boy with spectacles is known as ‘Four-eyes’, ‘Specky four-eyes’, ‘Annie four eyes’... Occasionally he is ‘Eye balls’..and ‘Specky Jock’ (Scotland). |