▪ I. freckly, a.
(ˈfrɛklɪ)
[f. freckle n. + -y1.]
Full of spots or freckles.
| a 1704 T. Brown Highlander 14 He..plumps his Freckly Cheeks with stinking Weed [Tobacco]. 1740 Pineda Span. Dict., Sarpullido, freckly, motly, or full of small Spots. 1935 Huxley & Haddon We Europeans v. 156 Skin Colour. Light, Medium, Swarthy, Freckly. |
▪ II. † ˈfreckly, ˈfrackly, adv. Chiefly Sc.
[f. freck a. + -ly2.]
a. Voraciously, greedily. b. Eagerly, with spirit, promptly, lustily.
| a. c 1205 Lay. 31772 He æt of ane uisce urechliche swiðe. 1375 Barbour Bruce vii. 166 Thai rostit in hy thair met, And fell rycht frakly for till et. |
| b. c 1440 York Myst. xi. 393 Do charge oure charyottis swithe And frekly folowes me. 1513 Douglas æneis viii. vii. 164 Wonder frakly thai Onto thair labour can thaim all addres. 1600 J. Melvill Diary (1842) 362 The gentilmen offerit tham selves verie fraclie. a 1651 Calderwood Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) III. 669 How fracklie, as a perjured and man-sworne person he went forward. |