kenspeckle
/ken-spek-uhl/US // ˈkɛnˌspɛk əl //UK // (ˈkɛnˌspɛkəl) //
贤士
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 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.
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