dotted, flecked, specked, speckled, stippled
(adjective) having a pattern of dots
Source: WordNet® 3.1
specked (comparative more specked, superlative most specked)
Having specks or spots, speckled.
Source: Wiktionary
Speck, n. Etym: [Cf. Icel. spik blubber, AS. spic, D. spek, G. speck.]
Definition: The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus. Speck falls (Naut.), falls or ropes rove through blocks for hoisting the blubber and bone of whales on board a whaling vessel.
Speck, n. Etym: [OE. spekke, AS. specca; cf. LG. spaak.]
1. A small discolored place in or on anything, or a small place of a color different from that of the main substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit. "Gray sand, with black specks." Anson.
2. A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money. Many bright specks bubble up along the blue Egean. Landor.
3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmæa) common in the Eastern United States.
Speck, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Specked; p. pr. & vb. n. Specking.]
Definition: To cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture. Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 November 2024
(adjective) not functioning properly; “something is amiss”; “has gone completely haywire”; “something is wrong with the engine”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
