speck

Plural: specks

Noun

• a very small spot
  • "the plane was just a speck in the sky"
• (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
• a slight but appreciable amount
• A tiny spot or particle, especially of dirt.
• A very small amount; a particle; a whit.
• A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
• Fat; lard; fat meat.
• A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
• The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
• The fat of the hippopotamus.

Verb

Verb Forms: specked, specking, specks

• To mark or cover with small spots or flecks.
• produce specks in or on
  • "speck the cloth"
• To mark with specks; to speckle.

Examples

• a tiny speck of soot
• He has not a speck of money.
• not a speck of truth in her story.
• paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture
• The Scrabble tile was specked with an errant coffee drop, making it hard to read.

Synonyms

atom, corpuscle, hint, jot, mite, molecule, mote, particle, pinch, pinpoint, soupcon, tinge, touch, ace, aught, bissel, bit, crumb, dab, damn, dash, diddly, dot, drop, dusting, fleck, flip, flyspeck, glimpse, glint, grain, halfpennyworth, inch, iota, lick, modicum, morceau, morsel, ooch, ounce, pennyworth, piece, scantling, scent, scintilla, scooch, scrap, scruple, semblance, shred, skerrick, skoosh, skosh, sliver, smattering, smidge, smidgen, smidget, smidgy, smitch, smithereen, soupçon, spark, spatter, speck, speckle, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, strain, tad, tidbit, tidge, tittle, toddick, trace, trifle, tuppence worth, whiff, whit

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