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Jan. 15, 2015
Word of the Day

mackle Audio Pronunciation
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\MAK-uhl\
verb
1. to blur, as from a double impression in printing.
noun
1. a blur in printing, as from a double impression.
Quotes
Her arms were mackled red like a measles sufferer from being pricked and scraped with the cut grass ends, and she had a big blood-filled blister in the web of skin between her thumb and forefinger.
-- Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain, 1997
Origin
Mackle is a variant of the Latin word macula meaning "spot, blemish."
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