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Spotty   /spˈɑti/   Listen
Spotty

adjective
1.
Having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture).  Synonyms: patched, spotted.  "The wall had a spotty speckled effect" , "A black-and-white spotted cow"
2.
Lacking consistency.  Synonyms: scratchy, uneven.






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"Spotty" Quotes from Famous Books



... rather nice to be like one,' she said in a woman's contradictory way. 'And, Peter, dear, though I can't give them my fur, I wouldn't mind their building in it. Fancy a nest in my neck with little spotty eggs in it! O ...
— Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens • J. M. Barrie

... and Dumple, and Flecky—came stolidly homeward, their heads swinging low, absorbed in meditative digestion, and soberly retasting the sweetly succulent grass of the hollows, and the crisper and tastier acidity of the sorrel- mixed grass of the knolls. Behind them came Spotty and Speckly, young and frisky matrons of but a year's standing, who yet knew no better than to run with futile head at Roger, and so encourage that short-haired and short-tempered collie to snap at their heels. Here also, skirmishing on flank and rear, was Winsome's pet sheep, ...
— The Lilac Sunbonnet • S.R. Crockett



Words linked to "Spotty" :   patched, uneven, patterned, scratchy, spotted, inconsistent



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