peckled

/ˈpɛkəld/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Meaning

adj

British usage

"Jacob the patriarch, by force of imagination, made peckled lambs, laying peckled rods before his sheep."
"[…]the herons and the cranes and the coots and the didappers and the water hens and the teals and the curs and the drakes and the sheldrakes and the peckled fowls and the flocking sheep, all, all the sirenic and the not-so-sirenic sounds that they let out at the instant of their near-deaths."

Either from peckle (though attested earlier), or an alteration of speckled.

more peckled (comparative) most peckled (superlative)

Questions

How do you pronounce peckled?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈpɛkəld/.

What does peckled mean?

Speckled, spotted.

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