A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1633-1655
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Speckled, adj. [ME and e.m.E. spaclyd (a1400), spekelede (c1400), specled (Caxton), speckled (a1547). Cf. MDu. spekelede. Cf. also late ME and e.m.E. spakle (Prompt. Parv.), speckle (1495), both ultim. f. OE specca a speck.] Of an animal: Speckled, flecked, spotted. —1633 (1711) Sibbald's Orkn. & Shetl. 22.
The sheep … are generally black and speckled ?1655 Fugitive Poetry II xxviii 2/43.
The mungrell geese be east the Tay The speckled goats be west the Spey
