freckle
Meaning
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- A small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin.
- Any small spot or discoloration.
- A small sweet consisting of a flattish mound of chocolate covered in hundreds and thousands.
- (slang) The anus.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈfɹɛkəl/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English freken, frekel, from Old Norse freknur pl (compare Faroese frøknur, Swedish fräknar, Danish fregner), s-less variant of Old English sprecel from Proto-Germanic *sprekalą (“freckle”) (compare dialectal Norwegian sprekla, Middle High German spreckel), from Proto-Indo-European *sp(h)er(e)g- (“to strew, sprinkle”). Cognate with Albanian fruth (“measles”). More at spark. Related to spry, sprack.
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