fleckn.¹

Brit.

/flɛk/, U.S.

/flɛk/

Etymology: Not found before 16th cent.; though the related fleck v.¹ and flecked adj.¹ occur earlier; adopted from or cognate with Old Norse flekkr (Swedish fläck, Middle Danish flække), corresponding to Middle Dutch vlecke (feminine) (Dutch vlek (feminine), neuter), Middle Low German vlecke (feminine), vlek neuter, Old High German flec(ch, fleccho, blow, mark of a blow, speck, spot, place (Middle High German vlec, vlecke, modern German fleck, flecken speck, spot, hamlet) < Old Germanic *flekko-, -kon-. Compare the derivative German flicken to patch. The ulterior affinities are somewhat obscure; some of the senses strongly suggest connection with flake n.¹ and the Old Aryan root plāg- or plāk- to strike; but the root vowels seem to belong to different ablaut-series. Further, the sense ‘patch’, found in continental Germanic, points to connection with Old Norse flík patch, rag, the form of which implies ῑ (neither e nor a) as the root vowel. Possibly two distinct Old Germanic words have coalesced.

a. A mark in the skin; a blemish, freckle, spot; also, a sore or abrasion of the skin.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > spot or mark

spotOE

markOE

tachea1400

macula?a1425

ruby1542

plotch1548

flea-biting1552

fleck1598

blanch1608

staina1616

naeve1619

neve1624

dark1637

sunspot1651

pip1676

liver spot1684

beauty spot1795

heat-spot1822

spilus1822

ink-spot1839

punctation1848

punctuation1848

macule1864

soldier's spots1874

pock1894

mouche1959

the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount

speckc725

littleOE

somethingc1200

lutewihtc1230

little whatc1384

ouncec1387

lap1393

smalla1400

modicumc1400

nekedc1400

spota1413

tinec1420

nieveful?a1425

handfulc1443

mouthful?c1450

smatchc1456

weec1480

quern1503

halfpennyworth1533

groatsworth1562

dram1566

shellful1578

trickle1580

snatch1592

sprinkling1594

fleck1598

snip1598

pittance1600

lick1603

fingerful1604

modicum1606

thimbleful1607

flash1614

dasha1616

pipa1616

pickle1629

drachm1635

cue1654

smack1693

starn1720

bit1753

kenning1787

minikin1787

tate1805

starnie1808

sprat1815

harl1821

skerrick1825

smallums1828

huckleberry1832

scrimp1840

thimble1841

smite1843

nattering1859

sensation1859

spurt1859

pauchlea1870

mention1891

sketch1894

sputterings1894

scrappet1901

titch1937

tad1940

skosh1959

smattering1973

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > spotted condition > spot

speckc725

moleeOE

spot?c1225

wen1340

spleck1398

tachea1400

motec1400

macule?a1425

smot1532

fleck1598

iron mould1638

flecket1684

sye1781

the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > sore

sorec1000

cweise?c1225

sorancec1440

shoyn1527

uncome1542

sorance1592

rawness1607

button farcy1673

fleck1695

raw1825

cold sore1842

bed-sore1861

fox1862

pressure sore1889

Queensland sore1892

salt sore1908

salt-burn1917

pressure point1929

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Varo, a fleck, or freckle in ones face.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 377 The greace of a swan is commended.. for to cleanse the skin of the face from all flecks and freckles.

1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. at Flesche-Axe Fleck is..a sore in the flesh, from whence the skin is rubbed off.

1866 A. C. Swinburne Laus Veneris in Poems & Ballads 4 Her neck..wears yet a purple speck..fairer for a fleck.

1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) (at cited word) Them harvist-bugs hes maade big flecks cum oot all oher my airms.

figurative.1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam li. 74 Fret not..That life is dash'd with flecks of sin. 1879 ‘H. Stretton’ Through Needle's Eye I. 196 There was not a fleck upon his reputation.

b. A patch, spot, or streak of colour, light, etc.

ΘΠ

the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [noun] > fleck

fleck1804

freak1870

1804 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VI. 120 They have been badly painted..as it is all run in flecks.

1849 H. W. Longfellow Building of Ship in Seaside & Fireside 23 Shadows..Broken by many a sunny fleck.

1863 Macmillan's Mag. Jan. 172 The universal blue from Earth to Heaven was filled with flecks of fire.

1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland 208 The red gable of Hlitharfyall..with a fleck of white on its apex.

1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) at Fleck Black marble wi' yalla flecks in it.

2. A small particle; a flake, speck.

ΘΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > a particle

grotc888

crumba1387

motec1390

particlea1398

pointa1400

specka1400

atomy1584

moment1594

dust1597

pickle1604

mite1605

atom1626

iota1636

ramentum1658

bodikin1668

part1669

dustling1674

scintilla1674

minim1686

fleck1753

molecule1799

heartbeat1855

particule1889

1753 H. Walpole in Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 47 I never perceived, that I voided..any flecks of a stone.

1841 R. W. Emerson Circles in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 304 As we see flecks and scraps of snow left in cold dells..in June.

1861 Sir T. Martin Catullus, Lam. Ariadne 202 And flecks of wool stick to their wither'd lips.

1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 92 A fleck of rust on a bright surface of steel will steadily enlarge.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† fleckn.²

Etymology: Origin unknown; the meaning is clear from Isidore Etym. xii. xxix, where the Latin word is vulpes.

Obsolete. rare.

A fox.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Vulpes > vulpes vulpes (fox)

foxc825

toda1200

Reynardc1400

laurence?a1500

lowrie?a1500

tod lowrie?a1500

fleck1567

pug1812

puggy1827

Charley1857

red fox1875

alopecoid1880

redskin1905

1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 86 The Fleck..saith Isidore..is naturally subtile, and hath many fetches to deceiue one.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

† fleckn.³

Forms: Also flick.

Obsolete exc. dialect.

= flare n.²

ΘΠ

the world > food and drink > food > fat or oil > [noun] > lard

spickc832

lardc1420

fleck1575

larding1582

leaf lard1797

bladder lard1872

suine1880

jippo1929

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > defined by parts > fat round kidneys

midgeneOE

leaf1552

fleck1575

leaf fat1702

flare1847

1575 G. Turberville tr. F. S. Vicentino Treat. Cure Spanels in Bk. Faulconrie 364 Barrowes flicke, or Larde.

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Enxúndia Fat, flicke, sewet.

1630 J. Taylor Great Eater of Kent in Wks. i. 144/2 What say you to the Leafe or Flecke of a Brawne new kild..to be eaten hot out of the Bores belly raw?

1881 H. Smith & C. R. Smith Isle of Wight Words Flick or Vlick, the lard of the inside of a pig.

1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words Fleck, the fat of a pig before it is boiled down into lard.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

† fleckn.⁴

Etymology: ? proper name.

Obsolete.

Used in proverbial phrase fleck and his make, a contemptuous designation for a man and his paramour.

ΘΠ

the mind > emotion > love > love affair > [noun] > pair of lovers

yleofa1000

ménagea1393

couple1393

twosomec1480

fleck and his make1529

coupling1961

1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i. xvii. 22 b/1 I tell you nothyng now of..many a flekke and hys make that maketh theyre metyng at these holsum hallows.

1532 T. More Confut. Barnes in Wks. (1557) 780/2 What would the general counsail..haue sayed vnto that frere, and what vnto flecke hys make?

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. Hiii I dyd..here, How flek and his make, vse theyr secrete hauntyng.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

fleckv.¹

Brit.

/flɛk/, U.S.

/flɛk/

Forms: Also Middle English flek(k)e, 1600s flecke.

Etymology: < fleck n.¹; compare Old Norse flekka (perhaps the source), Danish flække, Swedish fläcka, German flecken.

a. transitive. To spot, streak or stripe; to dapple, variegate.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > variegation > variegate [verb (transitive)]

chequer?a1400

fleckc1430

engrail1483

shoot1532

begary1538

intermingle1553

enchase1590

diaper1592

sinew1592

motley1602

intercolour1607

damask1610

particolour1610

inshade1613

freta1616

enamel1650

discolour1656

variegatea1728

jasper1799

intershoot1845

patchwork1853

pattern1898

strand1914

harlequin-

the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > spot [verb (transitive)] > fleck

fleckc1430

flake1602

flecker1828

c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 199 The whyght flekkyd with the brown.

1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie iv. 10 Their legges streaked and flecked with redde and blacke.

1641 G. Sandys Paraphr. Song Solomon iv. i Vntill the Morning fleck the sky.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 8 Two Kids..Both fleck'd with white.

1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere iii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 17 The Sun was fleck'd with bars.

1830 Ld. Tennyson Love & Sorrow in Poems The first green leaf With which the fearful springtide flecks the lea.

1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton x. 139 Overhead the still blue is scarcely flecked by a cloud.

1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets viii. 250 The feathers of the soaring bird were flecked with gold and crimson grain.

b. To force in flecks or patches into. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > spot [verb (transitive)] > fleck > force flecks into

fleck1886

1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde 68 The wind..flecked the blood into the face.

Derivatives

ˈflecking n. Also concrete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [noun] > fleck > flecked condition

fleckiness1833

flecking1892

1892 Daily News 3 May 2/4 In other materials this flecking with irregularly recurrent hints of colour is confined to stripes.

1893 Westm. Gaz. 9 Feb. 6/1 White spots and fleckings in the waistcoats.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

† fleckv.²

Etymology: ? variant of flag v.¹

Obsolete exc. dialect.

intransitive. To fly low; to flit, flutter about.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > cause to move in a direction [verb (transitive)] > hither and thither

fleck1567

ballotte1680

tig-tag1846

to pillar and post1901

the world > animals > by locomotion > locomotion of animals > [verb (intransitive)] > fly

flusha1300

soarc1384

fly1480

flitter1483

flit1535

fleck1567

flirt1582

wagtail1606

waft1682

to take to wing1693

flaffer17..

to take (its, etc.) wing1807

skirl1859

the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > move in the air [verb (intransitive)] > flutter

flickerc1000

flackerc1400

flitter1483

quitter1513

flack1567

fleck1567

flusker1660

flaffer17..

flit1700

skimmer1824

flutter1853

volitate1866

flurry1883

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) viii. f. 100 [She] flecketh nere the ground.

1621 G. Markham Hunger's Prevent. (1655) 200 The old Cocke, the old Henne, and all their poots..flecke and runne together.

1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis viii. 156 They..fleck as lowe as earth, And lay their egs in tufts.

1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Fleck, to fly.

figurative and in extended use.1648 Earl of Westmorland Otia Sacra (1879) 154 The Relict..Doth voluntary fleck into Deaths armes.1652 J. Shirley Sisters Prol. 11 The Town will still be flecking, and a Play..will starve the second day.1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 208 He flecks from one Egge to another, so hatcheth nothing.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

fleckv.³

Brit.

/flɛk/, U.S.

/flɛk/

Categories »

dialect and U.S. variant flick v.²

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

n.¹1598

n.²1567

n.³1575

n.⁴1529

v.¹c1430

v.²1567

v.³

单词	fleck
释义	fleckn.¹ Brit. /flɛk/, U.S. /flɛk/ Etymology: Not found before 16th cent.; though the related fleck v.¹ and flecked adj.¹ occur earlier; adopted from or cognate with Old Norse flekkr (Swedish fläck, Middle Danish flække), corresponding to Middle Dutch vlecke (feminine) (Dutch vlek (feminine), neuter), Middle Low German vlecke (feminine), vlek neuter, Old High German flec(ch, fleccho, blow, mark of a blow, speck, spot, place (Middle High German vlec, vlecke, modern German fleck, flecken speck, spot, hamlet) < Old Germanic flekko-, -kon-. Compare the derivative German flicken* to patch. The ulterior affinities are somewhat obscure; some of the senses strongly suggest connection with flake n.¹ and the Old Aryan root plāg- or plāk- to strike; but the root vowels seem to belong to different ablaut-series. Further, the sense ‘patch’, found in continental Germanic, points to connection with Old Norse flík patch, rag, the form of which implies ῑ (neither e nor a) as the root vowel. Possibly two distinct Old Germanic words have coalesced. 1. a. A mark in the skin; a blemish, freckle, spot; also, a sore or abrasion of the skin. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > spot or mark spotOE markOE tachea1400 macula?a1425 ruby1542 plotch1548 flea-biting1552 fleck1598 blanch1608 staina1616 naeve1619 neve1624 dark1637 sunspot1651 pip1676 liver spot1684 beauty spot1795 heat-spot1822 spilus1822 ink-spot1839 punctation1848 punctuation1848 macule1864 soldier's spots1874 pock1894 mouche1959 the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount speckc725 littleOE somethingc1200 lutewihtc1230 little whatc1384 ouncec1387 lap1393 smalla1400 modicumc1400 nekedc1400 spota1413 tinec1420 nieveful?a1425 handfulc1443 mouthful?c1450 smatchc1456 weec1480 quern1503 halfpennyworth1533 groatsworth1562 dram1566 shellful1578 trickle1580 snatch1592 sprinkling1594 fleck1598 snip1598 pittance1600 lick1603 fingerful1604 modicum1606 thimbleful1607 flash1614 dasha1616 pipa1616 pickle1629 drachm1635 cue1654 smack1693 starn1720 bit1753 kenning1787 minikin1787 tate1805 starnie1808 sprat1815 harl1821 skerrick1825 smallums1828 huckleberry1832 scrimp1840 thimble1841 smite1843 nattering1859 sensation1859 spurt1859 pauchlea1870 mention1891 sketch1894 sputterings1894 scrappet1901 titch1937 tad1940 skosh1959 smattering1973 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > spotted condition > spot speckc725 moleeOE spot?c1225 wen1340 spleck1398 tachea1400 motec1400 macule?a1425 smot1532 fleck1598 iron mould1638 flecket1684 sye1781 the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > sore sorec1000 cweise?c1225 sorancec1440 shoyn1527 uncome1542 sorance1592 rawness1607 button farcy1673 fleck1695 raw1825 cold sore1842 bed-sore1861 fox1862 pressure sore1889 Queensland sore1892 salt sore1908 salt-burn1917 pressure point1929 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Varo, a fleck, or freckle in ones face. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 377 The greace of a swan is commended.. for to cleanse the skin of the face from all flecks and freckles. 1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. at Flesche-Axe Fleck is..a sore in the flesh, from whence the skin is rubbed off. 1866 A. C. Swinburne Laus Veneris in Poems & Ballads 4 Her neck..wears yet a purple speck..fairer for a fleck. 1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) (at cited word) Them harvist-bugs hes maade big flecks cum oot all oher my airms. figurative.1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam li. 74 Fret not..That life is dash'd with flecks of sin. View more context for this quotation1879 ‘H. Stretton’ Through Needle's Eye I. 196 There was not a fleck upon his reputation. b. A patch, spot, or streak of colour, light, etc. ΘΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [noun] > fleck fleck1804 freak1870 1804 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VI. 120 They have been badly painted..as it is all run in flecks. 1849 H. W. Longfellow Building of Ship in Seaside & Fireside 23 Shadows..Broken by many a sunny fleck. 1863 Macmillan's Mag. Jan. 172 The universal blue from Earth to Heaven was filled with flecks of fire. 1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland 208 The red gable of Hlitharfyall..with a fleck of white on its apex. 1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) at Fleck Black marble wi' yalla flecks in it. 2. A small particle; a flake, speck. ΘΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > a particle grotc888 crumba1387 motec1390 particlea1398 pointa1400 specka1400 atomy1584 moment1594 dust1597 pickle1604 mite1605 atom1626 iota1636 ramentum1658 bodikin1668 part1669 dustling1674 scintilla1674 minim1686 fleck1753 molecule1799 heartbeat1855 particule1889 1753 H. Walpole in Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 47 I never perceived, that I voided..any flecks of a stone. 1841 R. W. Emerson Circles in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 304 As we see flecks and scraps of snow left in cold dells..in June. 1861 Sir T. Martin Catullus, Lam. Ariadne 202 And flecks of wool stick to their wither'd lips. 1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 92 A fleck of rust on a bright surface of steel will steadily enlarge. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † fleckn.² Etymology: Origin unknown; the meaning is clear from Isidore Etym. xii. xxix, where the Latin word is vulpes. Obsolete. rare. A fox. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Vulpes > vulpes vulpes (fox) foxc825 toda1200 Reynardc1400 laurence?a1500 lowrie?a1500 tod lowrie?a1500 fleck1567 pug1812 puggy1827 Charley1857 red fox1875 alopecoid1880 redskin1905 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 86 The Fleck..saith Isidore..is naturally subtile, and hath many fetches to deceiue one. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † fleckn.³ Forms: Also flick. Obsolete exc. dialect. = flare n.² ΘΠ the world > food and drink > food > fat or oil > [noun] > lard spickc832 lardc1420 fleck1575 larding1582 leaf lard1797 bladder lard1872 suine1880 jippo1929 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > defined by parts > fat round kidneys midgeneOE leaf1552 fleck1575 leaf fat1702 flare1847 1575 G. Turberville tr. F. S. Vicentino Treat. Cure Spanels in Bk. Faulconrie 364 Barrowes flicke, or Larde. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Enxúndia Fat, flicke, sewet. 1630 J. Taylor Great Eater of Kent in Wks. i. 144/2 What say you to the Leafe or Flecke of a Brawne new kild..to be eaten hot out of the Bores belly raw? 1881 H. Smith & C. R. Smith Isle of Wight Words Flick or Vlick, the lard of the inside of a pig. 1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words Fleck, the fat of a pig before it is boiled down into lard. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † fleckn.⁴ Etymology: ? proper name. Obsolete. Used in proverbial phrase fleck and his make, a contemptuous designation for a man and his paramour. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > love > love affair > [noun] > pair of lovers yleofa1000 ménagea1393 couple1393 twosomec1480 fleck and his make1529 coupling1961 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i. xvii. 22 b/1 I tell you nothyng now of..many a flekke and hys make that maketh theyre metyng at these holsum hallows. 1532 T. More Confut. Barnes in Wks. (1557) 780/2 What would the general counsail..haue sayed vnto that frere, and what vnto flecke hys make? 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. Hiii I dyd..here, How flek and his make, vse theyr secrete hauntyng. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2021). fleckv.¹ Brit. /flɛk/, U.S. /flɛk/ Forms: Also Middle English flek(k)e, 1600s flecke. Etymology: < fleck n.¹; compare Old Norse flekka (perhaps the source), Danish flække, Swedish fläcka, German flecken. a. transitive. To spot, streak or stripe; to dapple, variegate. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > variegate [verb (transitive)] chequer?a1400 fleckc1430 engrail1483 shoot1532 begary1538 intermingle1553 enchase1590 diaper1592 sinew1592 motley1602 intercolour1607 damask1610 particolour1610 inshade1613 freta1616 enamel1650 discolour1656 variegatea1728 jasper1799 intershoot1845 patchwork1853 pattern1898 strand1914 harlequin- the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > spot [verb (transitive)] > fleck fleckc1430 flake1602 flecker1828 c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 199 The whyght flekkyd with the brown. 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie iv. 10 Their legges streaked and flecked with redde and blacke. 1641 G. Sandys Paraphr. Song Solomon iv. i Vntill the Morning fleck the sky. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 8 Two Kids..Both fleck'd with white. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere iii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 17 The Sun was fleck'd with bars. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Love & Sorrow in Poems The first green leaf With which the fearful springtide flecks the lea. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton x. 139 Overhead the still blue is scarcely flecked by a cloud. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets viii. 250 The feathers of the soaring bird were flecked with gold and crimson grain. b. To force in flecks or patches into. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > spot [verb (transitive)] > fleck > force flecks into fleck1886 1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde 68 The wind..flecked the blood into the face. Derivatives ˈflecking n. Also concrete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [noun] > fleck > flecked condition fleckiness1833 flecking1892 1892 Daily News 3 May 2/4 In other materials this flecking with irregularly recurrent hints of colour is confined to stripes. 1893 Westm. Gaz. 9 Feb. 6/1 White spots and fleckings in the waistcoats. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † fleckv.² Etymology: ? variant of flag v.¹ Obsolete exc. dialect. intransitive. To fly low; to flit, flutter about. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > cause to move in a direction [verb (transitive)] > hither and thither fleck1567 ballotte1680 tig-tag1846 to pillar and post1901 the world > animals > by locomotion > locomotion of animals > [verb (intransitive)] > fly flusha1300 soarc1384 fly1480 flitter1483 flit1535 fleck1567 flirt1582 wagtail1606 waft1682 to take to wing1693 flaffer17.. to take (its, etc.) wing1807 skirl1859 the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > move in the air [verb (intransitive)] > flutter flickerc1000 flackerc1400 flitter1483 quitter1513 flack1567 fleck1567 flusker1660 flaffer17.. flit1700 skimmer1824 flutter1853 volitate1866 flurry1883 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) viii. f. 100 [She] flecketh nere the ground. 1621 G. Markham Hunger's Prevent. (1655) 200 The old Cocke, the old Henne, and all their poots..flecke and runne together. 1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis viii. 156 They..fleck as lowe as earth, And lay their egs in tufts. 1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Fleck, to fly. figurative and in extended use.1648 Earl of Westmorland Otia Sacra (1879) 154 The Relict..Doth voluntary fleck into Deaths armes.1652 J. Shirley Sisters Prol. 11 The Town will still be flecking, and a Play..will starve the second day.1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 208 He flecks from one Egge to another, so hatcheth nothing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2021). fleckv.³ Brit. /flɛk/, U.S. /flɛk/ Categories » dialect and U.S. variant flick v.² This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.¹1598n.²1567n.³1575n.⁴1529v.¹c1430v.²1567v.³
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