speck /spɛk/noun 7verb 1forms 3 noun7 •A tiny spot or particle, especially of dirt.Matvey was already holding up the shirt like a horse’s collar, and, blowing off some invisible speck, he slipped it with obvious pleasure over the well-groomed body of his master. — 1901 •A very small amount; a particle; a whit.He has not a speck of money.not a speck of truth in her story. •A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol. •Fat; lard; fat meat. •The blubber of whales or other marine mammals. •The fat of the hippopotamus. •A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States. verb1 •To mark with specks; to speckle.paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture formsspecked · specking · specks
