Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. wearing spectacles; also as a term of derog. address.

1915		J. Buchan Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 56: My freens ca’ me Ecky, and whiles Specky, for I wear glesses.
1959		I. & P. Opie Lore and Lang. of Schoolchildren (1977) 192: A girl or boy with spectacles is known as [...] ‘Specky four-eyes’.
1962		K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 98: Shur-rup, specky four-eyes.
1970		C. Brown Down All the Days 61: Andy, Tommy, Specky-Four-Eyes, all the boys he knew.
1981		(con. c.1920) P. Crosbie Your Dinner’s Poured Out! 52: To a boy with specatacles we shouted, ‘Specky Four-eyes!’.
1982		E. Mac Thomáis Janey Mack, Me Shirt is Black 94: Our Woodbines were lit by the golden sun and magnifying glasses, or some specky kid donated his specs to do the job.
1993		R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 82: Missis Byrne had a black lens in her glasses. Specky Three Eyes she was called.
1998		A. Warner Sopranos 201: ‘It’s ma stud,’ went the speccy guy.
1999		Observer Rev. 5 Sept. 16: Young Daniel might have been good at judo and not as porky and specky as his friend.
2000		Indep. on Sun. 16 Jan. 24: Oi Specky! Make yer bloody mind up!
2005		B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 80: The specky, four-eyed, perverted, smelly nonce.
2010		Observer New Review 3 Oct. 25/5: The speccy one, Will.
2015		I. Welsh Decent Ride 120: These fuckin specky Proclaimer cunts’ll be playin a gig ower thaire next.
2019		A. Parks February’s Son 287: ‘See the wee speccy cunt that left these [pamphlets] here?’.
2022		A. Parks May God Forgive 268: ‘[S]peccy guy in a tweed suit’.

2. thus fig., weak, inadequate.

1998		I. Welsh Filth 150: Instead of getting a decko at her bum he’s thumbing through the in-flight journal like the specky wee cunt that he is.
2000		Indep. Rev. 7 Feb. 1: My big brother [...] would look quite threatening if he were’nt so pathetically speccy and puny and un-butch.