Freckle

//ˈfɹɛkəl// noun, verb, slang

noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin.

    "Steve has brown hair, blue eyes, and freckles on his cheeks and nose."

  2. 2
    a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin wordnet
  3. 3
    Any small spot or discoloration.
  4. 4
    A small sweet consisting of a flattish mound of chocolate covered in hundreds and thousands. Australia
  5. 5
    The anus. Australia, slang
Verb
  1. 1
    To cover with freckles. transitive
  2. 2
    mark with freckles wordnet
  3. 3
    To become covered with freckles. intransitive
  4. 4
    become freckled wordnet

Synonyms

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lentigolentigoanusarsearseholeasscunt

Example

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"Vitamin C won't suppress freckle formation."

Etymology

From Middle English freken, frekel, from Old Norse freknur pl (compare Faroese frøknur, Swedish fräknar, Danish fregner), s-less variant of Old English sprecel from Proto-Germanic *sprekalą (“freckle”) (compare dialectal Norwegian sprekla, Middle High German spreckel), from Proto-Indo-European *sp(h)er(e)g- (“to strew, sprinkle”). Cognate with Albanian fruth (“measles”). More at spark. Related to spry, sprack.

Related phrases

a hair past a frecklebanana frecklefreckle upsmelly frecklebeauty marksun kiss

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