SPECK

Speck

Speck is an English word meaning "fat" or "blubber", attested since the early 17th century. This word also exists in German with the same meaning, but it normally refers to pork fat with or without some meat in it. Normal English use refers to German culinary uses, particularly of smoked or pickled pork belly.

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speck

Noun

  1. A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc.
  2. A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
  3. A very small thing; a particle; a whit.
  4. A small etheostomoid fish, , common in the eastern United States.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
  2. The fat of the hippopotamus.

Verb

  1. To mark with specks; to speckle.
    paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture


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