different between blacker vs flacker

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?blæk?/

Etymology 1

black (verb) +? -er

Noun

blacker (plural blackers)

1. One who blacks.
   • 1895, The Gopher: Annual Publication of the Student Body of the University of Minnesota

     Then "G. A. R." did shoulder his burden and with much labor made footprints for a hostelry afar off, where he might put it in for safe keeping, while the venders of papers and the ragged blackers of boots followed in his train and pelted him […]

Etymology 2

Adjective

blacker

1. comparative form of black: more black

English

Etymology

From Middle English flakeren (“to flutter, waver”), frequentative of Middle English flaken (“to move quickly back and forth”), equivalent to flack +? -er (frequentative suffix).

Akin to Middle Dutch flakkeren (“to flicker, waver”), German flackern (“to flare, flicker, flutter”), Icelandic flökra (“to flutter”), Icelandic flakka (“to rove about”), Old English flacor (“flying, fluttering”). See also flack, flicker.

Alternatively, the Middle English word may descend from Old English *flacorian, a derivative of Old English flacor (“flickering, fluttering”).

Verb

flacker (third-person singular simple present flackers, present participle flackering, simple past and past participle flackered)

1. (intransitive) To flutter like a bird.
   • 1535, Myles Coverdale, Bible, Ezekiel x. 19

     And the cherubins flackered with their wings.

2. (intransitive) To flicker; to quiver.

Anagrams

• Fackler

German

Pronunciation

Verb

flacker

1. inflection of flackern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative