freck

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English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fɹɛk/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -ɛk

Etymology 1

Compare freak (transitive verb), freckle.

Verb

freck (third-person singular simple present frecks, present participle frecking, simple past and past participle frecked)

(transitive, rare, poetic) To checker; to diversify.^[1]
- 1870, James Russell Lowell, The Cathedral:
  the painted windows, frecking gloom with glow

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

frack

Adjective

freck (comparative more freck, superlative most freck)

(Scotland) prompt; eager
- a. 1843, The Young Maxwell:
  Ae stride or twa took the silly auld carle,
  ⁠An' a gude lang stride took he.
  I trow thou art a freck auld carle,
  ⁠Wilt thou show the way to me?
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

^ “freck”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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