specky adjective 3noun 2forms 3 adjective3 •Marked with specks; speckled.The window panes grow speckier hour by hour, / The parlour dust is thickening inch by inch. — 1912 •(informal) Spectacular. •Resembling a speck, minuscule.19thC, John Ruskin, in 1909, The Works of John Ruskin, Volume 37, page 116, Far mightier, he, than any planet ; burning with his own planetary host doubtless round him ; and, on some speckiest of the specks of them, evangelical persons thinking our sun was made for them. noun2 •[before a noun] (informal) One who wears spectacles.During the long summer-evening games of football on the “rec”, a Specky always ended up being “selected” to play in goal where his glasses wouldn′t get knocked off and broken. — 2001 •(Australia, informal) Synonym of spectacular mark.‘Snake was just talking about you, said you take a mean specky,’ she said. Adam felt his face colour. His marking skills weren′t that great. — 2008 formsspeckies · speckier · speckiest
