speccy
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Early on in the film, we see Andie driving to school, and she gets out of the car, looking like she rolled in a garage sale and wearing the specciest of speccy glasses.
From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 2014
Harry Potter director Chris Columbus outdoes even the speccy wizard here – his hero, Percy Jackson, an apparently ordinary, lairy New York adolescent, is actually the son of Poseidon, the Greek god of the oceans.
From The Guardian • Dec. 21, 2012
Man of Steel Zack Snyder Henry Cavill, Russell Crowe Fans of the Christopher Reeve era may also be wondering what happened to mild-mannered Clark Kent, the speccy oversized goody-two-shoes of the Richard Donner/Richard Lester era.
From The Guardian • Jul. 23, 2012
He's even handsome, in a speccy, studious kind of way.
From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2010
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