freckとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /fɹɛk/
• 韻: -ɛk

語源 1

The noun is a clipping of freckle (noun). Freckle is derived from frecken (“(obsolete except UK, dialectal) freckle”)), from Late 中期英語 fracle, frekel, frekle (“freckle; pimple; fleck of colour in a stone”), a variant of frakne, freken (“freckle; other skin blemish”) from Old Norse freknur pl, an s-less variant of Proto-Germanic *sprekalą (“freckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *sp(h)er(e)g-, *(s)pregʰ- (“to sprinkle, strew”).

The verb is a clipping of freckle (noun) or freckle (verb).

名詞

freck (plural frecks)

1. Synonym of freckle (“a small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin; any small spot which has a different colour from its background”).
   • 1866 June, the Old Bushman [pseudonym], “The Waxwing, the Pine Grosbeak, and the Crossbills”, in The Intellectual Observer: Review of Natural History, Microscopic Research and Recreative Science, volume IX, number V, London: Groombridge and Sons […], →OCLC, page 349:

     The eggs [of the pine grosbeak] vary much, both in size and colouring; […] ground-colour pale blue-green, blotched and streaked with light purple and burnt umber spots and frecks; […]

動詞

freck (third-person singular simple present frecks, present participle frecking, simple past and past participle frecked) (transitive, chiefly passive voice, often poetic)

1. Chiefly followed by with.
   1. To cover (someone or something) with small marks or spots; to dapple, to freckle, to speckle.

      Synonyms: fleck, maculate, mottle, spot, variegate

      • 1626, Ovid, “The Second Booke”, in George Sandys, transl., Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished […], London: […] William Stansby, →OCLC, page 43:

        There ſhee a bloodleſſe Statue ſate, all freckt; / Her ſpotted minde the Marble did infect.

      • 1637 (date written; published 1638), John Milton, “Lycidas”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 63:

        The tufted Crovv-toe, and pale Geſſamine, / The vvhite Pink, and the Panſie freakt vvith jeat, / The glovving Violet.

      • a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 193, lines 813–815:

        Sables, of gloſſy black; and dark-embrovvn'd, / Or beauteous freakt vvith many a mingled hue, / Thouſands beſides, the coſtly pride of courts.

      • 1869 December (indicated as 1870 January), James Russell Lowell, “The Cathedral”, in James Thomas Fields, editor, The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume XXV, number CXLVII, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:

        The painted windows, frecking gloom with glow, / Dusking the sunshine which they seem to cheer, / Meet symbol of the senses and the soul; […]

      • 1929, Robert Bridges, “Book I: Introduction”, in The Testament of Beauty: A Poem […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 13, lines 277 and 283–285:

        The sky's unresting cloudland, […] / [N]ow parcelling the icy inane / highspredd in fine diaper of silver and mother-of-pearl / freaking the intense azure; […]

   2. (figurative) To scatter objects over (something).
      • 1821, John Clare, “[Poems.] Rosy Jane.”, in The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems, volume II, London: […] [T. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey, […]; and E[dward] Drury, […], →OCLC, page 3:

        The eve put on her sweetest shroud, / The summer-dress she's often in, / Freck'd with white and purple cloud, / Dappled like a leopard's skin; […]

別の表記

• freak

語源 2

From 中期英語 frecch, frecche (“bold, brave; fierce; greedy, voracious”), frek (“bold, brave; fierce; eager, zealous; fast, quick; greedy (?)”), from 古期英語 frec, fræc (“audacious, bold; greedy”) from Proto-West Germanic *frek (“greedy”), from Proto-Germanic *frekaz (“greedy”), from Proto-Indo-European *preg- (“to covet; to yearn”).

形容詞

freck (comparative more freck, superlative most freck) (archaic)

1. (Northern England) Not showing proper respect; impertinent, impudent.
2. (Scotland)
   1. Bold, brave, courageous.
      • 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter VII, in The Abbot. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, pages 221–222:

        "There was none to challenge him but old Keltie, and the carrier Auchtermuchty," replied Randal; "unlikely men to slay one of the frackest youths in Scotland of his years, and who was sure to have friends and partakers at no great distance."

        Footnote *: “Boldest—most forward.”

   2. Physically active and healthy; robust, vigorous.

      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:healthy

      • 1887, John Service, “Doctor Gibson o’ Beith”, in The Life and Recollections of Doctor Duguid of Kilwinning. […], Edinburgh: Young J. Pentland, →OCLC, book II (Jenny Whalbert’s Cracks), page 210:

        [H]e's a freck aul' body at his age.

   3. Often followed by for or to: eager to do something; also, quick to act when an opportunity arises; prompt.
      • 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter VII, in The Abbot. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 225:

        ["][T]his brother of thine, who is so frack, as the fellow called him, bears he the same wonderful likeness to thee as formerly?" / "If your Grace means in temper, you know whether I am so frack as the serving-man spoke him." / "Nay, thou art prompt enough in all reasonable conscience," replied the Queen; […]

      • [1825, Allan Cunningham, “The Young Maxwell”, in The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern; […], volume III (in Scots), London: […] [Thomas Davison] for John Taylor, […], →OCLC, stanza 1, page 209:

        Ae stride or twa took the silly auld carle, / ⁠An' a gude lang stride took he. / I trow thou art a freck auld carle, / ⁠Wilt thou show the way to me?

        A stride or two took the silly old carle [fellow], / And a good long stride took he. / I trow [trust] thou art an eager old carle, / Wilt thou show the way to me?]

別の表記

• frack

派生語

• frack, frak (“to move or travel (purposefully or rapidly)”) (Scotland, obsolete)
• frackly (Scotland, obsolete)
• freik, freke (“one eager to fight, warrior; man”) (Scotland, poetic, obsolete)

参照

Further reading

• freckle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Joseph Wright, editor (1900), “FRECK, adj.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume II (D–G), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 489.
• “† freck, adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

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