speck
noun
[ spɛk ]
• a tiny spot.
• "the figure in the distance had become a mere speck"
speck
verb
• mark with small spots.
• "their skin was specked with goose pimples"
Origin:
Old English specca ; compare with the noun speckle.
speck
noun
• a smoked ham of a type produced in north-eastern Italy.
Origin:
via Italian from Dutch spek, German Speck ‘fat bacon, whale blubber’ (in which sense it was formerly used in English): related to Old English spec .
