freck

English

Etymology 1

Compare freak (transitive verb), freckle.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive, rare, poetic) To checker; to diversify.
    • Lowell
      the painted windows, frecking gloom with glow

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Adjective

freck (comparative more freck, superlative most freck)

  1. (Scotland) prompt; eager

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for freck in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.