See speckle on Wiktionary
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"name": "uder"
}
],
"etymology_text": "The noun is from Middle Dutch spekkel; the verb was later coined from the noun, in the late 16th century.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "speckles",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "speckling",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "speckled",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "speckled",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "speckle (third-person singular simple present speckles, present participle speckling, simple past and past participle speckled)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To mark with speckles."
],
"links": [
[
"speckles",
"#Noun"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈspɛkəl/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-speckle.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/61/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-speckle.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-speckle.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/61/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-speckle.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-speckle.wav.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛkəl"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to mark with speckles",
"word": "täplittää"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "krapitʹ",
"sense": "to mark with speckles",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "крапить"
}
],
"word": "speckle"
}
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