different between bleck vs sleck

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

Alternative forms

• slekk

Etymology

From Middle English slecken, slekken, from Old Norse slekkja, sløkkva (“to extinguish, quench, slake”), from Proto-Germanic *slakjan?, *slakwijan? (“to slake”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)l?g- (“weak, faint, limp”). Cognate with Old English sle??an, slæ??an (“to make slack or slow, delay”).

Verb

sleck (third-person singular simple present slecks, present participle slecking, simple past and past participle slecked)

1. Alternative form of slake

   to sleck lime

2. (dialectal) To slake; allay; cool; quench; extinguish.
3. (Scotland) To groan when overloaded with food; sigh with repletion.

Related terms

• slecken
• sletch