different between bleck vs pleck

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.

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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

Etymology

From Middle English pleck, plek, perhaps a variation of plack, or perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *plecc (“spot, mark”), from Proto-West Germanic *plakkju, from Proto-Germanic *plakj? (“spot, stain”).

Cognate with West Frisian plak (“place, location, spot”), Dutch plek (“place, spot, patch”), Low German Plakk, Plakke (“spot, place, patch”). More at patch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?k/

Noun

pleck (plural plecks)

1. (Britain dialectal) A plot of ground.