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Fleck
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- 1 A surname.
- 1 A flake.
"two flecks of Lard cut with your knife"
- 2 a small contrasting part of something wordnet
- 3 A lock, as of wool.
"With teeth they smooth their work, as on it slips, And flecks of wool stick to their wither'd lips"
- 4 a small fragment of something broken off from the whole wordnet
- 5 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."
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- 6 A small amount.
"a fleck of hope"
- 1 To mark (something) with small spots. transitive
"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."
- 2 make a spot or mark onto wordnet
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.
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.
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