SPOT, SPOTTED, SPOTTY
ADJECTIVES
– BESPECKED spotted or specked over the surface …1565
– BLOACHED of a variegated appearance; spotted …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– GARLED spotted, checked; chiefly used of cattle …1501 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– GUTTULAR spotted …1811
– MACKLED spotted …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MACKLY spotted or soiled …1975 Amer. dial.
– MACULATED spotted, stained, defiled, polluted …1646
– MACULATORY apt to spot or defile …1614 obs. rare
– MACULIFEROUS bearing or marked by spots, spotty …1853
– MACULOSE full of spots; spotted …1727
– MACULOUS full of spots, spotted …1688 rare
– MANGY dirty-looking; unevenly coloured; spotted …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MAPLE-FACED having a spotted face …1607 obs.
– MARLED spotted, variegated, streaky …1787 Sc.
– MARLY spotted, variegated, streaked, marbled …1721 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– MEALY spotty; disfigured by blotches or spots, marked with blemishes …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MEASLED spotted, blotched, marked with pimples; speckled, mottled …1810 Eng. dial.
– MEASLE-FACED having pimples, having a spotty, inflamed complexion …1790 Eng. dial.
– MEASLY spotted; having a white scurfiness on the skin …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MEEZLED spotted, blotched, marked with pimples; speckled, mottled …1810 Eng. dial.
– MIRLY spotted, streaked, marbled …1790 Sc.
– NAEVOSE spotted, freckled …1847 rare
– NAEVOUS spotted, freckled …1890 rare
– PIEDID pied, spotted, mottled …1757 Amer. dial.
– PIEDIDY pied, spotted, mottled …1963 Amer. dial.
– PIEDY pied, spotted, mottled …1895 Amer. dial.
– RATCHED striped; spotted …1790 Eng. dial.
– SPICKETTY speckled, spotted; mottled …1873 Eng. dial.
– ZITTY spotty, pimpled …1950s sl., orig. US teen
NOUNS
– ARR a spot or freckle …1830 Eng. dial.
– ASH-SPOTS lighter spots that appear on one’s arms and legs when one gets cold …2000s African-American sl.
– BLAUNCH a blotch or white spot upon the skin …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CARBUNCLE a red spot or pimple on the nose or face caused by habits of intemperance …1682
– CHORB a spot, a pimple …1970 S. Afr. school sl.
– DAUT a dot, a speck, a spot …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– FLYSPECK a small spot or speck
– GIN-BUD a gin-induced spot or pimple on the face …c1820 sl.
– GOOBER a small mole, spot, or similar skin blemish …1970s US college sl.
– HEAT-SPOT a red spot on the skin, a freckle …1822-34
– HICKEY a spot, a pimple …1934 US sl.
– HICKIE a pimple; a spot …World War I Amer. sl.
– LENTILS freckles or spots on the skin …1558-68 obs.
– MACULATION the act of spotting or staining; a being spotted or defiled …a1450
– MACULE a blemish, a spot …1483 obs.
– MAIL a spot, a mark, a stain …1865 Sc. & Eng. dial. obs.
– MASCLE a spot, a speck …a1300 obs.
– MASE a spot, a freckle …1527 obs.
– MEASLE a spot, a pimple …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MEZZIL a spot, a pimple …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MEZZLE a spot, a pimple …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– NAEVE a spot or blemish …1619 obs.
– NEVE a spot or mark on the skin …1624 obs. rare
– PIP a small spot on the skin …1676 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– RANDOLPH (SCOTT) a spot …1992 UK rhyming sl.
– RUBY a red facial spot or pimple …1542 obs.
– SCAM a spot, a mark, a stain; a blemish …1866 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SCAW a faded mark, a blemish, a spot …1825 Sc.
– SCLATCH an unseemly mass of anything semi-liquid; a large clot of mud or filth; a large spot or mark on the skin …1895 Sc.
– SELINA SCOTT a spot …1980s rhyming sl.
– SKLATCH an unseemly mass of anything semi-liquid; a large clot of mud or filth; a large spot or mark on the skin …1895 Sc.
– SUDDLE a stain, a spot …1861 Sc.
– SULSH a spot; a stain …Bk1869 Eng. dial.
– TACHE a spot, a blotch, a blemish, a blot …a1300 obs.
– TACK a spot, a stain, a blemish …c1425 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– TASH a stain, a spot, a drop, a blemish, a flaw …Bk1905 Sc.
– TICK a dot of any kind; a small speck or spot; the dot above the letter I, etc. …Bk1905 Sc.
– TICKER a very small spot or pimple on the skin; an eruption on the face …1824 Sc.
– TOKEN a spot on the body indicating disease, esp. the plague …1634 now rare or obs.
– ZAT a spot, a pimple, a blackhead …1950s sl., orig. US teen
– ZIT a spot, a pimple, a blackhead …1950s sl., orig. US teen
– ZITZ a spot, a pimple, a blackhead …1950s sl., orig. US teen
– ZORT a spot, a pimple, a blackhead …1950s sl., orig. US teen
VERBS
1432 ► MACULATE to spot, stain, soil, defile, pollute
1484 ► MACULE to spot, to stain → obs.
1485 ► BESPARKLE to bespatter, to spot → obs.
1677 ► MAIL to spot, to discolour, to stain → Sc. & Eng. dial. obs.
1826 ► MARL to become mottled, variegated; to variegate, to spot, to streak → Sc.