What does speckly mean?
Speckly means speckled; marked with speckles.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
speckled; marked with speckles.
April 3 2010, Huffington Post - Fresh Eggs, Grace, Rebirth, & Popovers Sometimes they're just brown and speckly; sometimes they're pointy, sometimes petite. But always their yolks are plump and perky and marigold-yellow.
In some eggs the markings are very dense towards the large end, in others they are pretty uniformly distributed over the whole surface; in some they are very minute and speckly, in others they average the tenth of an inch in diameter.
The clouds hung unevenly over the climbing mountains, so that far snow-bestrewn headlands looked like the speckly backs of monsters stalking up into the sky.
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Speckly means speckled; marked with speckles.
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April 3 2010, Huffington Post - Fresh Eggs, Grace, Rebirth, & Popovers Sometimes they're just brown and speckly; sometimes they're pointy, sometimes petite. But always their yolks are plump and perky and marigold-yellow.
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