fleck
/flɛk/
fleck noun: a flake.
Noun
fleck (plural flecks)
- A flake.
- two flecks of Lard cut with your knife1675, William Rabisha, The Whole Body of Cookery Dissected, Taught and Fully
- A lock, as of wool.
- With teeth they smooth their work, as on it slips,
And flecks of wool stick to their wither'd lips1861, Theodore Martin, The poems of Catullus, translated into English verse - 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
- With teeth they smooth their work, as on it slips,
- A small spot or streak; a speckle.
- 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
- A small amount.
- a fleck of hope
- a fleck of imagination
Verb
fleck (third-person singular simple present flecks, present participle flecking, simple past and past participle flecked)
- To mark (something) with small spots.
- 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.1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
- It was a perfect June day, with only a few light clouds flecking a pure blue sky.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 241
- Synonyms:
- fleak
Proper noun capitalized: Fleck
Fleck
- A surname.
fleck meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
fleck in Tamil
- தோலிலுள்ள புள்ளி, மச்சம், மறு, வடு, துகள்
fleck in Urdu
- داغ, دھبہ
fleck in Malayalam
- പുള്ളി, മറു, പാട്, കണം
fleck in Kannada
- ಕಲೆ, ಮಚ್ಚೆ, ಚುಕ್ಕೆ
Examples of fleck in a sentence
- The silk noil was slightly nubby with random flecks in an off-white colour.
- Flecks of spring green – the kind generated from radioactive waste – coat the unwieldy triangles.
- Fleck wrote in his own style, features the Malian ngoni players Bassekou Kouyate and Haruna Samake.
Synonyms of fleck
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Forms of fleck
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | flecks |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | flecks |
| present participle | flecking |
| past participle | flecked |
| past | flecked |
Origin of fleck
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.
Words formed from fleck
Words that rhyme with fleck
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Questions about fleck
- What does fleck mean?
- Fleck means a flake.
- What is fleck in Tamil?
- Fleck in Tamil is தோலிலுள்ள புள்ளி, மச்சம், மறு. See Fleck meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is fleck?
- Fleck can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce fleck?
- Fleck is pronounced /flɛk/.
- What is the plural of fleck?
- The plural of fleck is flecks.
Words near fleck in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fleck (page history and authors); Fleck (page history and authors); fleck (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fleck (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fleck (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fleck (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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