freck
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Compare freak (transitive verb), freckle.
Verb edit
freck (third-person singular simple present frecks, present participle frecking, simple past and past participle frecked)
- (transitive, rare, poetic) To checker; to diversify.[1]
- 1870, James Russell Lowell, The Cathedral:
- the painted windows, frecking gloom with glow
Etymology 2 edit
Alternative forms edit
Adjective edit
freck (comparative more freck, superlative most freck)
- (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?- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References edit
- ^ “freck”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.