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Speckled vs Fleck - What's the difference?

speckled | fleck |

As adjectives the difference between speckled and fleck

is that speckled is with dots or spots, spotted while fleck is fledged, full-fledged.

speckled

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • with dots or spots, spotted
    • The bird's eggs were speckled as camouflage.
  • Sporadically and irregularly marked.

    • Synonyms

    * speckly

    fleck

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A flake
  • A lock, as of wool.
  • A small spot or streak; a speckle.
  • * Longfellow
    • A sunny fleck .
  • * Tennyson
    • Life is dashed with flecks of sin.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To mark with small spots
  • *
  • *: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.