speck

/spษ›k/

IPA: /S P EH1 K/

noun
  1. 1

    A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc.

    โ€œa tiny speck of sootโ€

  2. 2

    A very small thing; a particle; a whit.

    โ€œHe has not a speck of money.โ€

  3. 3

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

verb
  1. 1

    To mark with specks; to speckle.

    โ€œpaper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufactureโ€

noun
  1. 1

    Fat; lard; fat meat.

  2. 2

    A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.

  3. 3

    The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.

  4. 4

    The fat of the hippopotamus.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/speck