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fleck
English
Etymology
From Middle English *flekk, *flekke (attested in Middle English flekked (“spotted, flecked”)), from Old Norse flekkr (“spot”), from Proto-Germanic *flekka-. Cognate with Dutch vlek, German Fleck, Swedish fläck.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fl?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Noun
fleck (plural flecks)
- A flake
- A lock, as of wool.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of J. Martin to this entry?)
- A small spot or streak; a speckle.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Talking Oak
- A sunny fleck.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Talking Oak
Translations
Verb
fleck (third-person singular simple present flecks, present participle flecking, simple past and past participle flecked)
- (transitive) To mark with small spots
- So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
Translations
Luxembourgish
Verb
fleck
- second-person singular imperative of flecken
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fleak
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fli?k/
Noun
fleak (plural fleaks)
- (obsolete) A flake; a thread or twist.
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 61:
- […] that all the businesses of Men do very much depend upon these little long fleaks or threds of Hemp and Flax.
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 61:
Anagrams
- Flake, flake
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