Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having specks or spots; slightly or partially spotted.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective informal Spectacular.
  • noun informal One who wears spectacles; often used attributively.
  • noun Australia, Australian rules football, informal A spectacular mark (catch) in Australian rules football.
  • adjective Resembling a speck, minuscule.
  • adjective Marked with specks; speckled.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From spectacle or spectacular +‎ -y.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From speck +‎ -y.

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Examples

  • THIEF - Well, viewers, I've just found out that my wife's shagging the specky no-mates bloke.

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  • WIFE - Equally, I know sod all about this man apart from the fact that he reads books on his own in restaurants and looks like a specky nerd.

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  • I already know how fly-specky/nit-picky this is, you don't have to tell me.

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  • I already know how fly-specky/nit-picky this is, you don't have to tell me.

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  • WIFE - Equally, I know sod all about this man apart from the fact that he reads books on his own in restaurants and looks like a specky nerd.

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  • THIEF - Well, viewers, I've just found out that my wife's shagging the specky no-mates bloke.

    Tales From The Script 4 : This Time It's Greenaway juliette 2009

  • If you want a 'specky lot' as whatshisface off Bargain hunt would call it, try Michael mcGlynn in Hamilton, against Tom McCabe.

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  • I already know how fly-specky/nit-picky this is, you don't have to tell me.

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  • I already know how fly-specky/nit-picky this is, you don't have to tell me.

    First Day 2006

  • I already know how fly-specky/nit-picky this is, you don't have to tell me.

    First Day 2006

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