bleck

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blɛk/

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• Rhymes: -ɛk

Etymology 1

From Middle English blek (“ink”), from Old Norse blek (“black tint, ink”), from Old English blæc (“black tint or dye, ink”), from Proto-West Germanic *blak, from Proto-Germanic *blaką (“that which is black; blackness”).

Noun

bleck (plural blecks)

1. Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease.
2. Soot, smut.
3. (obsolete) A black man.
4. (dialectal) Coalfish (Pollachius virens).

Etymology 2

From Middle English blekken, from the noun above.

Verb

bleck (third-person singular simple present blecks, present participle blecking, simple past and past participle blecked)

1. (obsolete, dialect) To blacken.
2. (obsolete, dialect) To defile.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)

Related terms

• blatch
• bletch

References

• “bleck”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Etymology 3

Imitative.

Interjection

bleck

1. (rare) Alternative form of blech

Synonyms

• feh, pfaugh, pish, pshaw, pooh; see also Thesaurus:bah

Scots

Etymology

From Old English blæc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blɛk/

Adjective

bleck (comparative blecker, superlative bleckest)

1. (South Scots) black

   bleck:  

Noun

bleck

1. A challenge to a feat of exceptional skill; a baffle in reaction to such a feat.
2. A puzzle.
3. (South Scots) black

References

• “bleck, n.¹, v.¹” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Swedish

Etymology

From Low German blick, from Middle Low German bleck, from Old Saxon *blek, from Proto-West Germanic *blik, from Proto-Germanic *bliką.

Compare Danish blik (< Middle Low German bleck), German Blech (< Old High German bleh).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blɛk/
• Homophones: bläck

Noun

bleck n

1. tin plate
2. sheet metal

Declension

See also

• välsbleck