Other forms: freckles
A freckle is a small brown spot the sun brings out on skin. Covered in freckles, a few freckles, freckles across her nose.
They are patches where the skin makes more pigment in response to sunlight, and they fade in winter, which is what separates them from moles. They go with fair skin and red hair because of the same gene, and that skin burns easily.
1nounfreckleA small brown spot the sun brings out on skin.
“After a week at the beach, a few new freckles appeared across her nose.”
freckle is a skin mark.
Middle English frakne, from Old Norse freknur, freckles.
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)pregʰ- — to sprinkle, strew
Proto-Germanic
*sprekalą — freckle
Old Norse
freknur
Middle English
fracle
English, today
freckle
Built from
The is derived from Late Middle English fracle, frekel, frekle (“freckle; pimple; fleck of colour in a stone”), a variant of frakne, freken (“freckle; other skin blemish”) (whence frecken (“(obsolete except UK, dialectal) freckle”)), from Old Norse freknur (compare Faroese frøkna, Danish fregner, Swedish fräknar), an s-less variant of Proto-Germanic sprekalą (“freckle”) (compare Middle High German spreckel, dialectal Norwegian sprekla), from Proto-Indo-European (s)pregʰ- (“to sprinkle, strew”). a doublet of spark and sprack and spry. The is derived from the noun. 2
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