spreckle

== English == === Alternative forms === sprackle === Etymology 1 === From Middle English sprekle, from Old English sprecel, spreccil, from Proto-West Germanic *sprekl, from Proto-Germanic *sprekla-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to strew, spread, sprinkle, scatter”). ==== Noun ==== spreckle (plural spreckles) (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A speck, spot, speckle; freckle. === Etymology 2 === From Middle English *spreklen (suggested by past participle sprekled), from the noun above. ==== Verb ==== spreckle (third-person singular simple present spreckles, present participle spreckling, simple past and past participle spreckled) (ambitransitive, now chiefly dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To speckle; to become spotted or speckled.