STREAKED

streaked, streaky

(adjective) marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations; “streaked hair”; “fat legs and dirty streaky faces”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Adjective

streaked (comparative more streaked, superlative most streaked)

Bearing streaks.

Marred with streaks.

(US, dialect, dated) uncomfortable; out of sorts.

Verb

streaked

simple past tense and past participle of streak

Anagrams

• restaked, retasked

Source: Wiktionary

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Streaked, a.

1. Marked or variegated with stripes.

2. Uncomfortable; out of sorts. [Local, U.S.]

STREAK

Streak, v. t. Etym: [Cf. Stretch, Streek.]

Definition: To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Streak, n. Etym: [OE. streke; akin to D. streek a line, stroke, G. strich, AS. strica, Sw. strek, Dan. streg, Goth. stricks, and E. strike, stroke. See Strike, Stroke, n., and cf. Strake.]

1. A line or long mark of a different color from the ground; a stripe; a vein. What mean those colored streaks in heaven Milton.

2. (Shipbuilding)

Definition: A strake.

3. (Min.)

Definition: The fine powder or mark yielded by a mineral when scratched or rubbed against a harder surface, the color of which is sometimes a distinguishing character.

4. The rung or round of a ladder. [Obs.]

Streak, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Streaked; p. pr. & vb. n. Streaking.]

1. To form streaks or stripes in or on; to stripe; to variegate with lines of a different color, or of different colors. A mule . . . streaked and dappled with white and black. Sandys. Now streaked and glowing with the morning red. Prior.

2. With it as an object: To run swiftly. [Colloq.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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