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Spreckled vs Speckled - What's the difference?

spreckled | speckled |

As adjectives the difference between spreckled and speckled

is that spreckled is speckled while speckled is with dots or spots, spotted.

spreckled

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Speckled.
  • * 1822 , Oliver Goldsmith, A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature , Vol. 4,
    • The black eagle : blackish ; the head and upper neck mixed with red ; the tail feathers, the first half white, spreckled with black, the other half blackish ; the leg feathers dirty white.
  • * c.1882-1898 , ,
    • "What like were the fish, King Henry, my son?
    What like were the fish, my pretty little one?"
    "They were spreckled on the back and white on the belly; mother, make my bed soon,
    For I'm sick to the heart, and I fain wald lie down."
  • * 1885 , , The Prairie: a Tale ,
    • Many are the cubs, and many are the spreckled fawns that I have reared with these old hands ...

    speckled

    English

    Adjective

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

    • Synonyms

    * speckly