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Meaning of speck

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speck

Pronunciation:/spɛk/

noun

Definitions

  1. A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc.

    Example: a tiny speck of soot

  2. A very small thing; a particle; a whit.

    Example: He has not a speck of money.

  3. A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.

verb

Definitions

  1. To mark with specks; to speckle.

    Example: paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture

speck

Pronunciation:/spɛk/

noun

Definitions

  1. Fat; lard; fat meat.

  2. A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.

  3. The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.

  4. The fat of the hippopotamus.