a. Sc. and north. dial. Also -speckled; cf. prec. [See prec.; the ending may be -LE 1, as in brittle, etc.] Easily recognizable; conspicuous.
1714. Mrs. Centlivre, Wonder, III. Eng. Man. … What kind of a Woman is it you enquire after? Gib. Geud troth, she’s ne Kenspekle, she’s aw in a Clowd.
1795. Burns, Lett. to G. Thomson, May. My phiz is sae kenspeckle that the very joiner’s apprentice … knew it at once.
1820. Scott, Monast., xxxiv. It is a kenspeckle hoof-mark, for the shoe was made by old Eckie of Canonbie.
1862. Darwin, Lett., 25 Jan., in Life (1887), II. 385. Your notion of the Aristocrat being kenspeckle … is new to me.
