bleck

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease.
  2. Ink.
  3. Soot, smut.
  4. A black man.
  5. Coalfish (Pollachius virens).
verb
  1. To blacken.
  2. To defile.
intj
  1. Alternative form of blech.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/blɛk/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bleck.wav

Word forms

bleck blecks blecking blecked

Etymology

From Middle English blek (“ink”), from Old Norse blek (“black tint, ink”), from Old English blæc (“black tint or dye, ink”), from Proto-West Germanic *blak, from Proto-Germanic *blaką (“that which is black; blackness”).

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