freckle

Meanings

Noun

• A small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin.
• Any small spot or discoloration.
• A small sweet consisting of a flattish mound of chocolate covered in hundreds and thousands.
• The anus.

Verb

• To cover with freckles.
• To become covered with freckles.

Related

Similar words

• ephelis
• lentigo

Origin

• From Middle English freken, frekel, from Old Norse freknur (compare 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.