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"etymology_text": "Compare freak (transitive verb), freckle.",
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"ref": "1870, James Russell Lowell, The Cathedral:",
"text": "the painted windows, frecking gloom with glow",
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"To checker; to diversify."
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"(transitive, rare, poetic) To checker; to diversify."
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"(Scotland) prompt; eager"
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