different between pleck vs sleck
pleck
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)
- (Britain dialectal) A plot of ground.
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sleck
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)
- Alternative form of slake
- to sleck lime
- (dialectal) To slake; allay; cool; quench; extinguish.
- (Scotland) To groan when overloaded with food; sigh with repletion.
Related terms
- slecken
- sletch
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