Specky vs Get - What's the difference?
specky | get |
Resembling a speck, minuscule.
* 19thC , , in 1909, The Works of John Ruskin , Volume 37,
* 1976 , National Association of Dental Laboratories (U.S.), NADL Journal , Volume 23,
* 2008 , Beth Kephart, House of Dance ,
Marked with specks; speckled.
* 1912 , J. A. Stanley Adam, Bernard C. White, Parodies and Imitations Old and New ,
* 1918 , The Southwestern Reporter , Volume 201,
* 1952 , National Research Council of Canada Associate Committee on Grain Research, Collected Papers of the Associate Committee on Grain Research , Volume 8,
(informal) Spectacular.
(informal) One who wears spectacles; often used attributively .
* 2001 , Fred Butler, Up the Snicket: Shoddy Town Tales ,
* 2010 , Dick Lynas, Pies Were for Thursdays , AuthorHouse UK,
* 2011 , John Sugden, Scum Airways: Inside Football?s Underground Economy , Mainstream eBooks,
(Australia, Australian rules football, informal) A spectacular mark (catch) in Australian rules football.
* 2008 , Beth Montgomery, Murderer?s Thumb ,
(label) To obtain; to acquire.
(label) To receive.
* , chapter=8
, title= To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) To become.
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
* , chapter=8
, title= (label) To cause to become; to bring about.
*
, title= (label) To fetch, bring, take.
* Bible, (w) xxxi. 13
* (Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
(label) To cause to do.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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, chapter=5, title= To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
(label) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
(label) To cause to come or go or move.
(label) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
* (Dante Gabriel Rossetti), Retro me, Sathana , line 1
(label) To begin (doing something).
(label) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
(label) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity (to do something).
To be subjected to.
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(label) To be.
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(label) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
To catch out, trick successfully.
To perplex, stump.
(label) To find as an answer.
To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
(label) To hear completely; catch.
(label) To .
To beget (of a father).
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* 2009 , (Hilary Mantel), (Wolf Hall) , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 310:
(label) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out .
* (1625-1686)
Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
*2007 , Tom Dyckhoff,
Offspring.
* 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 755:
Lineage.
(sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
Something gained.
* 2008 , Karen Yampolsky, Falling Out of Fashion (page 73)
(Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
As nouns the difference between specky and get
is that specky is (informal) one who wears spectacles; often used attributively while get is offspring or get can be (british|regional) a git or get can be (judaism) a jewish writ of divorce.As an adjective specky
is resembling a speck, minuscule or specky can be (informal) spectacular.As a verb get is
(label) to obtain; to acquire.specky
English
Etymology 1
From .Adjective
(er)page 116,
- Far mightier, he, than any planet ; burning with his own planetary host doubtless round him ; and, on some speckiest of the specks of them, evangelical persons thinking our sun was made for them .
page 99,
- Nor did anyone even remotely suspect that an atom was anything but an atom and therefore the very speckiest particle of matter in existence.
page 77,
- She said it in her up-and-lilting accent, looking at me steady as a nurse is steady, not the tiniest, speckiest dust of self-confidence lacking, even though she'd told me nothing new.
page 305,
- The window panes grow speckier hour by hour, / The parlour dust is thickening inch by inch.
page 585,
- Plaintiff?s manager, Murphy, on October 31st answered, saying the samples received “are somewhat speckier than the paper we ordinarily run,” but that he did not think much of that would be found, or that defendant would have any trouble in marketing the paper;.
page 413,
- macaroni from the larger size fractions was orange in color and somewhat speckier , while that from the smaller sizes was increasingly brownish and opaque.
Etymology 2
From spectacle or (spectacular) .Adjective
(-)Noun
(speckies)page 22,
- During the long summer-evening games of football on the “rec”, a Specky always ended up being “selected” to play in goal where his glasses wouldn?t get knocked off and broken.
page 138,
- It was bad enough having to wear a satin suit for one day when I made my First Communion. There was no chance of me being seen in those NHS specs and accordingly being mocked as a ‘specky four eyes’ so I took every chance I could not to wear them.
unnumbered page,
- Then turning to his mate next to me at the bar, he explains, ‘I only took his specks off because he was with his girlfriend. Then when he?s surrounded by security, he has aonother go, don?t he! Well, he?s just cost the speckies' of the world thousands, cos next time a ' specky has a go I?ll smash his glasses all over his face.’
page 159,
- ‘Snake was just talking about you, said you take a mean specky ,’ she said.
- Adam felt his face colour. His marking skills weren?t that great.
get
English
(wikipedia get)Etymology 1
From (etyl) geten, from (etyl) 'to seize'. Cognate with Latin prehendo.Verb
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.}}
- We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get .
- His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}
- Get thee out from this land.
- Heto the strong town of Mega.
- Get him to say his prayers.
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”}}
- to get rid of fools and scoundrels
- to get a mile
- Get thee behind me.
- Do you mind? Excuse me / I saw you over there / Can I just tell you ¶ Although there are millions of / Cephalophores that wander through this world / You've got something extra going on / I think you probably know ¶ You probably get that a lot / I'll bet that people say that a lot to you, girl
- I had rather to adopt a child than get it.
- Walter had said, dear God, Thomas, it was St fucking Felicity if I'm not mistaken, and her face was to the wall for sure the night I got you.
- it being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty
Let's move to ..., The Guardian :
- Money's pouring in somewhere, because Churchgate's got lovely new stone setts, and a cultural quarter (ooh, get her) is promised.
Usage notes
In dialects featuring the past participle gotten, the form "gotten" is not used universally as the past participle. Rather, inchoative and concessive uses (with meanings such as "obtain" or "become", or "am permitted to") use "gotten" as their past participle, whereas stative uses (with meanings like "have") use "got" as their past participlehttp://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/gotten.html] and [http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/gotten.htm http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/gotten.htm, thus enabling users of "gotten"-enabled dialects to make distinctions such as "I've gotten (received) my marks" vs. "I've got (possess) my marks"; a subtle distinction, to be sure, but a useful one. The first example probably means that the person has received them, and has them somewhere, whereas the second probably means that they have them in their hand right now.
Synonyms
* (obtain) acquire, come by, have * (receive) receive, be given * (fetch) bring, fetch, retrieve * (become) become * (cause to become) cause to be, cause to become, make * (cause to do) make * (arrive) arrive at, reach * come, go, travel * : go, move * (begin) begin, commence, start * : catch, take * : answer * be able to * dig, follow, make sense of, understand * : be * : catch, come down with * con, deceive, dupe, hoodwink, trick * confuse, perplex, stump * (find as an answer) obtain * : catch, nab, nobble * (physically assault) assault, beat, beat up * catch, hear * (getter) getterAntonyms
* (obtain) loseDerived terms
* beget * forget * from the get-go * get about * get a charge out of * get across * get across to * get action * get after * get ahead of oneself * get a look in * get along * get along with * get around * get around to * get at * get away * get away from * get away with * get back * get back to * get behind * get better * get beyond * get by * get carried away * get done * get down * get going * get in * get in with * get into * get into trouble * get it * get it across one's head * get it into one's head * get it on * get it over with * get knotted * get lost * get moving * get off * get off easy * get off lightly * get off with * get on * get one over on * get one's end away * get one's rocks off * get on in years * get on to * get on with * get out * get out of * get over * get-rich-quick * get round * get round to * get some air * get someone's goat * get stuffed * get the goods on * get there * get the time to * get through * get through to * get to * get to be * get together * get under * get up * get up in * get up to * get well soon * get with the program, get with the programme * go-getter * go-getting * got * have gotNoun
(en noun)- ‘You were a high lord's get . Don't tell me Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell never killed a man.’
- I had reconnected with the lust of my life while landing a big get for the magazine.