spectable

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

By aphesis.

Adjective

spectable (comparative more spectable, superlative most spectable)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of respectable.
    • 1867, Petroleum V. Nasby, "Swingin Round the Cirkle.":
      Suffice it to say that the few Democratic members uv Congress had hard work borrowin money enuff to git the most spectable uv the crowd home agin, and even then thousands uv em who wuz drawed there by that speech, shoor uv apintments, wuz obliged to walk home ignominiously, uv whom I wuz which.