different between fleck vs freck

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)

1. A flake
2. A lock, as of wool.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of J. Martin to this entry?)

3. A small spot or streak; a speckle.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Talking Oak

     A sunny fleck.

Translations

Verb

fleck (third-person singular simple present flecks, present participle flecking, simple past and past participle flecked)

1. (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

1. second-person singular imperative of flecken

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??k/

Etymology 1

Compare freak (transitive verb), freckle.

Verb

freck (third-person singular simple present frecks, present participle frecking, simple past and past participle frecked)

1. (transitive, rare, poetic) To checker; to diversify.
   • 1870, James Russell Lowell, The Cathedral

     the painted windows, frecking gloom with glow

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• frack

Adjective

freck (comparative more freck, superlative most freck)

1. (Scotland) prompt; eager

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