Both flecked with white, the true Arcadian strain.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
A bird, a cloud, flecking the sunny air. --Trench. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
flecked — [flekt] adj [not before noun] [Date: 1300 1400; Origin: Probably from Old Norse flekkotr, from flekkr spot ] having small marks or spots, or small pieces of something, covering a surface flecked with ▪ red cloth flecked with white … Dictionary of contemporary English
flecked — [ flekt ] adjective with small spots of color: flecked with: green eyes flecked with golden brown … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
flecked — spotted, spattered, sprinkled, mottled, stippled, marbled, speckled, spangled, bespangled (see under SPOT vb) Analogous words: dappled, freaked, *variegated … New Dictionary of Synonyms
flecked — [[t]fle̱kt[/t]] ADJ: oft ADJ with n Something that is flecked with something is marked or covered with small bits of it. His hair was increasingly flecked with grey. Syn: streaked COMB in ADJ Flecked is also a combining form. He was attired in a… … English dictionary
flecked — UK [flekt] / US adjective with small spots of colour flecked with: green eyes flecked with brown … English dictionary
flecked — adjective having small marks or spots: red cloth flecked with white … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
flecked — un·flecked; … English syllables
flecked — [flekt] adj with small spots of colour green eyes flecked with brown[/ex] … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
flecked — Mawdesley Glossary spotted or marrked, blemished … English dialects glossary
flecked — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. streaked, spotted, mottled; see multicolored … English dictionary for students
