fleck

See also: Fleck, fléck, and Fléck

English

Etymology

From Middle English flekked, from Old Norse flekka (“to spot”), from Proto-Germanic *flekk-. Cognate to Dutch vlek.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /flɛk/
Rhymes: -ɛk

Noun

fleck (plural flecks)

A flake
A lock, as of wool.
(Can we find and add a quotation of J. Martin to this entry?)
A small spot or streak; a speckle.
- Longfellow
  A sunny fleck.
- Tennyson
  Life is dashed with flecks of sin.

Translations

flake — see flake

lock — see lock

small spot

Bulgarian: петно (bg) n (petno), точица (bg) m (točica)
Czech: skvrna (cs) f
Dutch: spikkel (nl)
Finnish: täplä (fi), pilkku (fi)
French: tache (fr) f
German: Fleck (de) m

Italian: puntino (it) m
Norwegian: flekk (no) m
Portuguese: mancha (pt) f, pinta (pt) f
Russian: кра́пинка (ru) f (krápinka), пятно́ (ru) n (pjatnó), пя́тнышко (ru) n (pjátnyško)
Spanish: mota (es) f
Swedish: fläck (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

French: flocon, particule (1), moucheture
German: ^{(please verify)} Tupfen

Italian: ^{(please verify)} macchiolina (it) f
Spanish: ^{(please verify)} mota (es) f, ^{(please verify)} salpicadura f

Verb

fleck (third-person singular simple present flecks, present participle flecking, simple past and past participle flecked)

(transitive) To mark with small spots
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803:
  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

to mark with small spots

Bulgarian: изпъстрям (bg) (izpǎstrjam)
Dutch: besprenkeln, bespikkelen
Finnish: täplittää

French: tacheter (fr), moucheter (fr)
Portuguese: manchar (pt)

Luxembourgish

Verb

fleck

second-person singular imperative of flecken