fleck
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English flekked, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse flekka (“to spot”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *flekk-. Cognate to Dutch vlek.
Pronunciation
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.
- Longfellow
- A sunny fleck.
- Tennyson
- Life is dashed with flecks of sin.
- Longfellow
Translations
flake — see flake
lock — see lock
small spot
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Verb
fleck (third-person singular simple present flecks, present participle flecking, simple past and past participle flecked)
- (transitive) To mark with small spots
- Template:RQ:Frgsn Zlnstn
- 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.
- Template:RQ:Frgsn Zlnstn
Translations
to mark with small spots
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Luxembourgish
Verb
fleck
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