specklenoun [ C usually plural ]
uk/ˈspek.əl/us/ˈspek.əl/a very small mark of a different colour from the area around it, usually found with a large number of other marks of the same type:
A blackbird's egg is blue with brown speckles on it.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Dirt & untidiness
- a dog's breakfast idiom
- bloodstain
- blot
- clutter
- contaminant
- contaminate
- filthiness
- fleck
- grime
- gunge
- gunk
- muck
- pollutant
- slob
- slovenly
- slut
- smear
- smudge
- speck
- stain
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