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freckle.

A small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈfɹɛkl̩/Received-Pronunciation/ˈfɹɛk(ə)l/General-American

  1. A small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin.

    Steve has brown hair, blue eyes, and freckles on his cheeks and nose.

  2. Any small spot which has a different colour from its background.

  3. A small sweet consisting of a flattish mound of chocolate covered in hundreds and thousands.

    Australia

  4. The anus.

    Australia · slang
Where this word comes from

The noun is derived from Late Middle English fracle, frekel, frekle (“freckle; pimple; fleck of colour in a stone”), a variant of frakne, freken (“freckle; other skin blemish”) (whence frecken (“(obsolete except UK, dialectal) freckle”)), from Old Norse freknur pl (compare Faroese frøknur, Danish fregner, Swedish fräknar), an s-less variant of Proto-Germanic *sprekalą (“freckle”) (compare Middle High German spreckel, dialectal Norwegian sprekla), from Proto-Indo-European *sp(h)er(e)g-, *(s)pregʰ- (“to sprinkle, strew”). Doublet of spark, sprack, and spry. The verb is derived from the noun. cognates * Albanian fruth (“measles”) * Old English sprecel

verb/ˈfɹɛkl̩/Received-Pronunciation/ˈfɹɛk(ə)l/General-American

  1. To cover (someone; or something, such as the skin) with freckles (noun sense 1 and noun sense 2).

    transitive

  2. To become covered with freckles.

    intransitive
Where this word comes from

The noun is derived from Late Middle English fracle, frekel, frekle (“freckle; pimple; fleck of colour in a stone”), a variant of frakne, freken (“freckle; other skin blemish”) (whence frecken (“(obsolete except UK, dialectal) freckle”)), from Old Norse freknur pl (compare Faroese frøknur, Danish fregner, Swedish fräknar), an s-less variant of Proto-Germanic *sprekalą (“freckle”) (compare Middle High German spreckel, dialectal Norwegian sprekla), from Proto-Indo-European *sp(h)er(e)g-, *(s)pregʰ- (“to sprinkle, strew”). Doublet of spark, sprack, and spry. The verb is derived from the noun. cognates * Albanian fruth (“measles”) * Old English sprecel

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