Noun: fleck
| Singular | fleck |
| Plural | flecks |
Sample Sentences
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two flecks of Lard cut with your knife [1675, William Rabisha, The Whole Body of Cookery Dissected, Taught and Fully:]
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With teeth they smooth their work, as on it slips,
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And flecks of wool stick to their wither'd lips [1861, Theodore Martin, The poems of Catullus, translated into English verse:]
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A single fleck of wool from his sock got caught on a splintery floorboard and that was enough to convict him. [2015, Graham Masterson, Eye for an Eye: A Katie Maguire Short Story:]
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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. [1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto LI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 74:]
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a fleck of hope
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a fleck of imagination
Nouns inflected like fleck
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
*flekk', Old Norse Nouns '
flekkr', Dutch Nouns '
vlek', German Nouns '
Fleck', Swedish Nouns '
fläck'.
Verbs referencing "fleck"
German Nouns
Fleck, Icelandic Nouns
flekkur.