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Peckled vs Pickled - What's the difference?

peckled | pickled |

As adjectives the difference between peckled and pickled

is that peckled is speckled, spotted while pickled is preserved by pickling.

As a verb pickled is

(pickle).

peckled

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Speckled, spotted.
  • *, vol.I, New York, 2001, p.254:
  • *:Jacob the patriarch, by force of imagination, made peckled lambs, laying peckled rods before his sheep.
  • * 1972 , Edna O'Brien, Night , Mariner Books (2001), ISBN 9780618126897, page 30:
  • *:the herons and the cranes and the coots and the didappers and the water hens and the teals and the curs and the drakes and the sheldrakes and the peckled fowls and the flocking sheep, all, all the sirenic and the not-so-sirenic sounds that they let out at the instant of their near-deaths.

    • pickled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pickle)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Preserved by pickling.
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  • (label) Drunk.