Pancetta vs. Speck

Italian bacon that has been cured in salt and spices and then air-dried.

A small spot, mark, or discoloration.

A cured belly or pork; bacon.

A tiny amount; a bit

To mark with specks.

A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc.

A very small thing; a particle; a whit.

A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.

Fat; lard; fat meat.

(uncountable) A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.

The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.

The fat of the hippopotamus.

(transitive) To mark with specks; to speckle.

The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus.

A small discolored place in or on anything, or a small place of a color different from that of the main substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit.

A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money.

A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmæa) common in the Eastern United States.

To cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture.

A very small spot;

(nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything

A slight but appreciable addition;

Produce specks in or on;