freck

• IPA^(key): /fɹɛk/

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• Rhymes: -ɛk

Compare freak (transitive verb), freckle.

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

1. (transitive, poetic, rare) To checker; to diversify.
   • 1869 December (indicated as 1870 January), James Russell Lowell, “The Cathedral”, in James Thomas Fields, editor, The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume XXV, number CXLVII, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:

     The painted windows, frecking gloom with glow, / Dusking the sunshine which they seem to cheer, / Meet symbol of the senses and the soul; […]

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freck (comparative more freck, superlative most freck)

1. (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?

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