fleck

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  1. noun A tiny mark or spot: flecks of mica in the rock.
  2. noun A small bit or flake: flecks of foam; a fleck of dandruff.
  3. transitive verb To spot or streak: the path was flecked with sunlight.

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  • He had stepped into the howling airfall and was snatched down and away like a fleck of dust Venera had been watching from the tower and saw his parachute balloon open a second later. —  AnalogSFF,May2007
  • Each twisting amber fleck was the flame of a tiny candle. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 04-05 - October-November 1996
  • And what would Abraham say, now that his son had named a star for him that was a caldron of vast forces, beside which humanity was a mere fleck, a nuisance?
  • The white fleck was still there, but he had other matters on his mind. —  F ;SF; - vol 093 issue 04-05 - October-November 1997
  • No longer white, it shone like a fleck of tinfoil. —  F ;SF; - vol 093 issue 04-05 - October-November 1997
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

gobbet ·  speck ·  flake ·  dribble ·  gob ·  smutch ·  shovelful ·  drool ·  smear ·  clot ·  fistful ·  smudge

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fleck:   flecked
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Probably from Middle English flekked, spotted; akin to Old Norse flekkr, spot.

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  1. from Middle English *flekk (only in the verb), from Icelandic flekkr, a fleck, spot, = Swedish fläck = Old Danish fleck, flek, flekke, flik, a spot, stain, place, = Dutch vlek, a spot, stain, blemish, = Middle Low German vlecke = Old High German flec, fleccho, Middle High German vlec, vlecke. G. fleck, a spot, stain, place, piece, patch, shred, etc. Prob. connected with flick, q. v.
  2. from Middle English flecken, flekken, from Icelandic flekka = Danish flække = Swedish fläcka, fläka = Dutch vlekken, spot, stain, = German flecken, spot, stain, put on a piece, patch; from the noun.
  3. Another form of flake, influenced in form by fleck, a spot.
 

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