blake
/bleɪk/
blake adjective: yellow, as butter or cheese.
Adjective
blake (comparative blaker or more blake, superlative blakest or most blake)
- Yellow, as butter or cheese.
- White shows the rye, the big of big of blaker hue,[…]1747, Josiah Relph, A Miscellany of Poems,: Consisting of Original Poems, Translations, Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect, Familiar Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams, page 13
- […] the E. blake (identical with AS. blac, G. bleich, pale) is provincially used in the sense of yellow. As blake as a paigle, as yellow as a cowslip.1859, Hensleigh Wedgwood, A Dictionary of English Etymology: A - D, page 184
Proper noun capitalized: Blake
Blake (countable and uncountable, plural Blakes)
- An English surname transferred from the nickname.
- A surname from Irish.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A female given name transferred from the surname.
- An unincorporated community in Owsley County, Kentucky, United States.
Examples of blake in a sentence
- I mind nowt aboot your dark lasses - as blake as marygowds an' as black as corbies.1876, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg: A Novel ..., page 271:
- Noo, that's a bit o' neyce blake butter.1911, Richard Blakeborough, Wit, Character, Folklore & Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire, page 340:
Forms of blake
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | blaker |
| comparative | more blake |
| superlative | blakest |
| superlative | most blake |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Blakes |
Origin of blake
From Middle English blak, blac (“pale”), from Old English blāc (“pale, pallid, wan, livid; bright, shining, glittering, flashing”) and Old Norse bleikr (“pale; yellow, pink; any non-red warm color”); both from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale; shining”). Compare Scots bleg (“light, drab”). More at bleak.
A surname derived from either Old English blæc (“black”) or from Old English blāc (“pale, fair, shining, white”), or as an anglicisation of Irish Ó Bláthmaic.
Words formed from blake
- Blakean
- Blake Basin
- Blake Island
- Blake River
- Blake Village
Phrases with blake
Words that rhyme with blake
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- flake
- slake
- stake
- wake
- sheikh
- strake
- betake
- mosaic
- fake
- jake
- opaque
- forsake
- lake
- mistake
- raik
- retake
- sake
- claik
- hake
- partake
- quake
- Spirit Lake
- steak
- ache
- remake
- spake
- tea break
- wrake
- ake
- alphamosaic
- ashake
- Choctaw Lake
- crake
- Deer Lake
- demake
- eastern green drake
- glass snake
- laik
- moonquake
- Mud Lake
- nake
- overtake
- parliament cake
- prison break
- radiopaque
- rattlesnake
- reshake
- sodaic
Questions about blake
- What does blake mean?
- Blake means yellow, as butter or cheese.
- How do you use blake in a sentence?
- I mind nowt aboot your dark lasses - as blake as marygowds an' as black as corbies.
- What part of speech is blake?
- Blake can be an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce blake?
- Blake is pronounced /bleɪk/.
Words near blake in the dictionary
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