Definition of "spectable" []

• Eye dialect spelling of respectable. (adjective)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "I 's a 'spectable 'oman, I is, en don' mix wid dem kind er people."
• "Cabs, with trunks and band-boxes between the drivers 'legs and outside the apron, rattle briskly up and down the streets on their way to the coach-offices or steam-packet wharfs; and the cab - drivers and hackney-coachmen who are on the stand polish up the ornamental part of their dingy vehicles -- the former wondering how people can prefer' them wild beast cariwans of homnibuses, to a riglar cab with a fast trotter, 'and the latter admiring how people can trust their necks into one of' them crazy cabs, when they can have a 'spectable' ackney cotche with a pair of 'orses as von't run away with no vun;' a consolation unquestionably founded on fact, seeing that a hackney-coach horse never was known to run at all,"
• "Cameron has made a giant sf spectable with all his usual trademarks: amazing set pieces, incredible design, great cinematography and fantastic, well edited, action scenes."