Lexicographical Neighbors of Kenspeck
Literary usage of Kenspeck
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1884)
"... seems to be a relic of a guttural sound. Kelt, sb. money : common word. Ken, sb.
knowledge": chiefly in such phrases as 'that's past my ken.' kenspeck ..."
2. Literary Reminiscences: From The Autobiography of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1851)
"... from local peculiarities of ground, and of sudden angles, was peculiarly
kenspeck, ie easy of recognition, and could have been challenged and identified ..."
3. Historical and Critical Essays by Thomas De Quincey (1853)
"It is certainly kenspeck, to use a good old English word — that is to say,
recognisable ; you challenge it for Homer's whenever you meet it. ..."
4. A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham by Edward Peacock (1877)
"Kell, s. internal parts of a pig or other animal Kelter, ». rubbish ; worthless
litter. kenspeck, adj. marked ; easily recognisable. Kindling, *. firewood. ..."
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