fleck

See also: Fleck, fléck, and Fléck

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

• IPA^(key): /flɛk/
• Rhymes: -ɛk

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.
   • Longfellow

     A sunny fleck.

   • Tennyson

     Life is dashed with flecks of sin.

Translations

flake — see flake

lock — see lock

small spot

• Bulgarian: петно (bg) n (petno), точица (bg) m (točica)
• Czech: skvrna (cs) f
• Dutch: spikkel (nl)
• Finnish: täplä (fi), pilkku (fi)
• French: tache (fr) f
• German: Fleck (de) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: puntino (it) m
• Norwegian: flekk (no) m
• Portuguese: mancha (pt) f, pinta (pt) f
• Russian: кра́пинка (ru) f (krápinka), пятно́ (ru) n (pjatnó), пя́тнышко (ru) n (pjátnyško)
• Spanish: mota (es) f
• Swedish: fläck (sv) c

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Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) French: flocon, particule (1), moucheture
• German: ^{(please verify)} Tupfen (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} macchiolina (it) f
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} mota (es) f, ^{(please verify)} salpicadura f

Verb

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

1. (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.

Translations

to mark with small spots

• Bulgarian: изпъстрям (bg) (izpǎstrjam)
• Dutch: besprenkeln, bespikkelen (nl)
• Finnish: täplittää
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: tacheter (fr), moucheter (fr)
• Portuguese: manchar (pt)

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Luxembourgish

Verb

fleck

1. second-person singular imperative of flecken