freck
adj1
Scotland prompt; eager
- 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. 1843, The Young Maxwell:
freck
verb/fɹɛk/
Etymology Compare freak (transitive verb), freckle.
- The painted windows, frecking gloom with glow, / Dusking the sunshine which they seem to cheer, / Meet symbol of the senses and the soul; […]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: