speck
/spษk/IPA: /S P EH1 K/
noun
- 1
A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc.
โa tiny speck of sootโ
- 2
A very small thing; a particle; a whit.
โHe has not a speck of money.โ
- 3
A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
verb
- 1
To mark with specks; to speckle.
โpaper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufactureโ
noun
- 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.
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