blɒt blɑt tʃɪp flɛk flɛk ˈspɛkəl spɒt spɑt spɒt spɑt make a spot or mark onto The wine spotted the tablecloth a small contrasting part of something a bald spot a leopard's spots a patch of clouds patches of thin ice a fleck of red a small fragment of something broken off from the whole a bit of rock caught him in the eye