speck

/spɛk/

noun

  1. 1

    A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc.

    “a tiny speck of soot”
  2. 2

    A very small thing; a particle; a whit.

    “He has not a speck of money.”
  3. 3

    A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.

verb

  1. 1

    To mark with specks; to speckle.

    “paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture”

noun

  1. 1

    Fat; lard; fat meat.

  2. 2

    A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.

  3. 3

    The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.

  4. 4

    The fat of the hippopotamus.

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