different between fleck vs sleck

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

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