Specky
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Specky is an adjective meaning Resembling a speck, minuscule.
Meaning
Resembling a speck, minuscule.
More Meanings
- Marked with specks; speckled.
- (informal) Spectacular.
- (Australia, Australian rules football, informal) Synonym of spectacular mark.
- (informal, often attributive) One who wears spectacles.
Example Sentences
The window panes grow speckier hour by hour, / The parlour dust is thickening inch by inch.
‘Snake was just talking about you, said you take a mean specky,’ she said. Adam felt his face colour. His marking skills weren′t that great.
She said it in her up-and-lilting accent, looking at me steady as a nurse is steady, not the tiniest, speckiest dust of self-confidence lacking, even though she'd told me nothing new.
1976, National Association of Dental Laboratories (U.S.), NADL Journal, Volume 23, page 99, Nor did anyone even remotely suspect that an atom was anything but an atom and therefore the very speckiest particle of matter in existence.
Word Forms
- speckier
- speckiest
- speckies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include specklike, speckledy, speckeldy, spaky, specked, speckly.
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