Pied vs Flecked - What's the difference?
pied | flecked | Related terms |
(pi)
(pie)
Decorated or colored in blotches.
* Burton
* Milton
(fleck)
A flake
A lock, as of wool.
A small spot or streak; a speckle.
* Longfellow
* Tennyson
To mark with small spots
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
Pied is a related term of flecked.
As verbs the difference between pied and flecked
is that pied is (pi) while flecked is (fleck).As an adjective pied
is decorated or colored in blotches.pied
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- pied coats
- meadows trim with daisies pied
Derived terms
* pied antelope * pied-billed grebe * pied finch * pied flycatcher * Pied PiperAnagrams
* ----flecked
English
Verb
(head)fleck
English
Noun
(en noun)- A sunny fleck .
- Life is dashed with flecks of sin.
