offcut vs speck

offcut

• A piece that has been cut off of a larger piece when not needed; surplus. 

• Cut off. 

• Excess; surplus. 

• To cut off. 

speck

• A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc. 

• A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol. 

• The fat of the hippopotamus. 

• A very small thing; a particle; a whit. 

• Fat; lard; fat meat. 

• The blubber of whales or other marine mammals. 

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

• To mark with specks; to speckle.