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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
Noun
fleck (plural flecks)
- A flake.
1675, William Rabisha, The Whole Body of Cookery Dissected, Taught and Fully:two flecks of Lard cut with your knife
- A lock, as of wool.
1861, Theodore Martin, The poems of Catullus, translated into English verse:With teeth they smooth their work, as on it slips,
And flecks of wool stick to their wither'd lips
2015, Graham Masterson, Eye for an Eye: A Katie Maguire Short Story:A single fleck of wool from his sock got caught on a splintery floorboard and that was enough to convict him.
- A small spot or streak; a speckle.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:modicum
1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, Canto LI, page 74:So fret not, like an idle girl, / That life is dash'd with flecks of sin. / Abide: thy wealth is gathered in, / When Time hath sunder'd shell from pearl.
- A small amount.
a fleck of hope
a fleck of imagination
Translations
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Verb
fleck (third-person singular simple present flecks, present participle flecking, simple past and past participle flecked)
- (transitive) To mark (something) with small spots.
- Synonym: (obsolete) fleak
1908, W B M Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC: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
- second-person singular imperative of flecken