The meaning of Speckle

adjective

Covered with blotches; patchy.

Usage examples:

Discoloration or blotchy skin on the legs

adjective

If someone's skin is blotchy, it is covered in marks, usually temporary ones, that are not regular in shape

Usage examples:

He'd been crying and his face was all blotchy., she has wispy red hair and blotchy skin.

adjective

(especially of a domestic animal) brownish or tawny with streaks of other colour.

Usage examples:

A brindle pup

noun

A brownish or tawny colour of animal fur, with streaks of other colour.

Usage examples:

Coat colours included red, brindle, and yellowish cream

adjective

Marked with or in the form of dots.

Usage examples:

A dotted background

verb

Mark with a small spot or spots.

Usage examples:

Wet spots of rain began to dot his shirt

Past simple and past participle of dot

adjective

Covered with freckles.

Usage examples:

A freckled face

verb

Cover or become covered with freckles.

Usage examples:

Skin which freckles easily

adjective

Having small, pale brown spots on the skin, usually on the face

Usage examples:

A freckled complexion, he’s a red-haired, freckled 34-year-old., i'm really freckly.

adjective

Having small, pale brown spots on the skin, usually on the face

Usage examples:

A freckled complexion, he’s a red-haired, freckled 34-year-old., i'm really freckly.

adjective

Marked with spots or smears of colour.

Usage examples:

A bird with mottled brown plumage

verb

Mark with spots or smears of colour.

Usage examples:

Green leaves that are heavily mottled with chocolate and maroon

adjective

Marked with areas of different colors in an irregular pattern

Usage examples:

Mottled skin

verb

Mark with small spots.

Usage examples:

Their skin was specked with goose pimples

noun

A tiny spot.

Usage examples:

The figure in the distance had become a mere speck

noun

A smoked ham of a type produced in north-eastern italy.

Usage examples:

Add the radicchio, thyme, speck, prosciutto, and chicken stock and cook for another eight to ten mi…

adjective

Covered or marked with small spots or patches of colour.

Usage examples:

The eggs are large and brown and speckly

adjective

Marked with spots.

Usage examples:

A spotty purple flower

verb

Cover (an object or surface) with small drops or particles of a substance.

Usage examples:

I sprinkled the floor with water

noun

A small quantity or amount of something scattered over an object or surface.

Usage examples:

a generous sprinkle of pepper

noun

A light rain.

Usage examples:

The rain grew from a mere sprinkle to a respectable drizzle

verb

(in drawing, painting, and engraving) mark (a surface) with numerous small dots or specks.

Usage examples:

To finish, stipple the picture with the original base colour

noun

The process or technique of stippling a surface, or the effect so created.

Usage examples:

These pictures combine his favourite techniques—wash, line, and stipple

adjective

Drawn, painted, or coloured using small spots or marks

Usage examples:

The divers saw tropical fish stippled in gold and black.