different between pleck vs fleck

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.

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