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bleck

/blɛk/

bleck noun: any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease. Also the alternative form of blech.

Noun

bleck (plural blecks)

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

Verb

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

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) To blacken.
  2. (dialectal, obsolete) To defile.
    • Þerfore ȝif oure prelatis or oþere prestis, whatevere þei ben, ben opinly blecked by sacrifise of maumetrie, as wiþ covetise, þat is opinly sacrifise of fals goddys, and oþere grete sinnes, as pride, symonye, and man-quellinge, glotonye, dronkenesse, and lecherie, by þe same skil tyþis or offringis...1382, John Wycliffe, A Petition to the King and Parliament; republished as chapter 33, in Thomas Arnold, editor, Select English works of John Wyclif, volume 3, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869, Tobit i....

Proper noun capitalized: Bleck

Bleck

  1. A surname.

Also used as

bleck is also the alternative form of blech.

Synonyms of bleck

Forms of bleck

Noun
pluralblecks
Verb
third-person singular presentblecks
present participleblecking
past participleblecked
pastblecked

Origin of bleck

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”).

From Middle English blekken, from the noun above.

Imitative.

Words that rhyme with bleck

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Questions about bleck

What does bleck mean?
Bleck means any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease.
What part of speech is bleck?
Bleck can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce bleck?
Bleck is pronounced /blɛk/.
What is the plural of bleck?
The plural of bleck is blecks.

Words near bleck in the dictionary

  1. bleching
  2. blechnaceous
  3. blechnoside
  4. blechs
  5. blechy
  6. bleck
  7. blecked
  8. blecking
  9. Bleckley
  10. Bleckley County
  11. blecks

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