different between bleck vs beck

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bl?k/

Verb

bleck (third-person singular simple present blecks, present participle blecking, simple past and past participle blecked)

1. (obsolete, dialect) To blacken.
2. (obsolete, dialect) To defile.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)

Interjection

bleck

1. (rare) Alternative form of blech

Synonyms

• feh, pfaugh, pish, pshaw, pooh; see also Thesaurus:bah

Scots

Etymology

From Old English blæc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bl?k/

Adjective

bleck (comparative blecker, superlative bleckest)

1. (South Scots) black

Noun

bleck

1. A challenge to a feat of exceptional skill; a baffle in reaction to such a feat.
2. A puzzle.
3. (South Scots) black

References

• “bleck, n.¹, v.¹” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Swedish

Etymology

Compare Danish blik (< Middle Low German bleck), German Blech (< Old High German bleh), all from Proto-Germanic *blik?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bl?k/
• Homophones: bläck

Noun

bleck n

1. tin plate
2. sheet metal

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English bek, bekk, becc, from Old Norse bekkr (“a stream or brook”), from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“stream”).

Cognate with Low German bek, beck, German Bach, Dutch beek, Swedish bäck, Old English bæc, bec, bæ?e, be?e (“beck, brook”). Doublet of batch. More at beach.

Noun

beck (plural becks)

1. (Norfolk, Northern English dialect) A stream or small river.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 1 p. 3[1]:

     […] Whence, climing to the Cleeves, her selfe she firmlie sets / The Bourns, the Brooks, the Becks, the Rills, the Rivilets […]

   • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter XIII:

     {...} the sky is blue, and the larks are singing, and the becks and brooks are all brim full.

Synonyms

Derived terms

• Troutbeck

Etymology 2

From Middle English bekken, a shortened form of Middle English bekenen, from Old English b?cnan, b?acnian (“to signify; beckon”), from Proto-West Germanic *baukn, from Proto-Germanic *baukn? (“beacon”). More at beacon.

Noun

beck (plural becks)

1. A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.

Derived terms

• beck and call

Translations

Verb

beck (third-person singular simple present becks, present participle becking, simple past and past participle becked)

1. (archaic) To nod or motion with the head.

Etymology 3

See back.

Noun

beck (plural becks)

1. A vat.

Etymology 4

From Middle English bec, bek, from Old French bec (“beak”),

Noun

beck (plural becks)

1. Obsolete form of beak.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k(i)

Noun

beck m (plural becks)

1. Alternative spelling of beque

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German pik, from Latin pix. See also Dutch pek, German Pech.

Pronunciation

• Homophone: bäck

Noun

beck n

1. pitch; A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.

Declension

Related terms

• becksvart