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Speck — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bacon noun Cured, often smoked meat cut from the back or belly of a pig, typically sliced thin and fried crisp.
  • blubber verb To cry loudly and messily, often with heavy sobbing.

Senses

Speck is used for these senses in English:

  • blubber (uncountable, countable) A fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis of whales and other cetaceans (infraorder Cetacea).

blubber — full definition

  1. verb To cry loudly and messily, often with heavy sobbing.
  2. noun The thick layer of fat beneath the skin of whales and other marine mammals that keeps them warm.
  3. noun Informal: excess body fat on a person.

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