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First published 1971 (SND Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1956
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SPECKY, adj. Wearing specs, bespectacled. Freq. used subst. as a nickname (m.Sc. 1971).wm.Sc. 1956 R. Jenkins Guests of War iv. i:
The unbraw unlovable puke married to yon specky gasping smout of a barber.
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"Specky adj.". Dictionary of the Scots Language. 2004. Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd. Accessed 1 Apr 2026 <http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/specky>
