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kenspeckle

/ken-spek-uhl/US // ˈkɛnˌspɛk əl //UK // (ˈkɛnˌspɛkəl) //

贤士

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Scot. and North England.

    • : conspicuous; easily seen or recognized.

Examples

  • You may consider yourself 'geyan fine,' all covered over with Scotch plaid, but I wouldn't be so 'kenspeckle' for worlds!

  • There was little kenspeckle about them saving their colour, which was a dull dark red.

  • Now he felt kenspeckle, not in any suit of material clothes but in a droll sense of nakedness.

  • When we reached Blackford Hall I found more than a kenspeckle countryside to remind me of homeland.

  • A vagrant with white mice is a kenspeckle, and surely you can have no difficulty in tracing her.