Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A tiny mark or spot: flecks of mica in the rock.
- n. A small bit or flake: flecks of foam; a fleck of dandruff.
- v. To spot or streak: the path was flecked with sunlight.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A spot; a streak; a splash; a stain.
- n. Specifically In entomology, an irregular and generally elongate dot of color: applied especially to such dots on the wings of butterflies and moths.
- To spot; streak or stripe; dapple. Also flecker.
- n. A flake; a lock.
- n. A dialectal form of flitch.
Wiktionary
- n. A flake
- n. A lock, as of wool.
- n. A small spot or streak; a speckle.
- v. transitive To mark with small spots
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A flake; also, a lock, as of wool.
- n. A spot; a streak; a speckle.
- v. To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- n. a small contrasting part of something
- v. make a spot or mark onto
Etymologies
- From Middle English flekked, from Old Norse flekka ("to spot"), from Proto-Germanic *flekk-. (Wiktionary)
- Probably from Middle English flekked, spotted; akin to Old Norse flekkr, spot. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This is like me calling a fleck of lint a 1/100,000 scale model of a cloud, even though it's not made of water.”
“Thoinot considers that in these cases the fleck is a fetich.”
“In Blenheim Farm's hydroponic greenhouse, a lone lingonberry was visible, now little more than a fleck of red buried in a swell of leaves.”
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“A tiny fleck of blood lifted from my cheek with a tingle not unlike a butterfly on my skin.”
“When I needed an emergency trip to the eye doctor because a fleck of metal had gotten caught in my eye, my dad inquired about where to go and took us there.”
“He turned his head and spat an almost invisible fleck of spit on the floor.”
“The bass would only hit the blue fleck 7 Berkley Power Worm.”
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“German as the oaths, and when he tried to seize Worth's shotgun a fleck of foam had appeared on his lips.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fleck’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
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few, small or little words
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few, paucity, poco, parvovirus, paraffin, pauper, poor, poverty, depauperate, impoverish, foal, filly and 80 more...
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facade, facet, facetious, facile, facsimile, fallible, fancy, fanfare, farce, fastidious, fatuous, fauna and 48 more...
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