bleck

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /blɛk/ Rhymes: -ɛk === Etymology 1 === 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”). ==== Noun ==== bleck (plural blecks) Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease. Soot, smut. (obsolete) A black man. (dialectal) Coalfish (Pollachius virens). === Etymology 2 === From Middle English blekken, from the noun above. ==== Verb ==== bleck (third-person singular simple present blecks, present participle blecking, simple past and past participle blecked) (obsolete, dialect) To blacken. (obsolete, dialect) To defile. ===== Related terms ===== blatch bletch ==== References ==== “bleck”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Etymology 3 === Imitative. ==== Interjection ==== bleck (rare) Alternative form of blech. ===== Synonyms ===== feh, pfaugh, pish, pshaw, pooh; see also Thesaurus:bah == Scots == === Etymology === From Old English blæc. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /blɛk/ === Adjective === bleck (comparative blecker, superlative bleckest) (Southern Scots) black === Noun === bleck A challenge to a feat of exceptional skill; a baffle in reaction to such a feat. A puzzle. (Southern Scots) black === References === “bleck, n.1, v.1”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC. == Swedish == === Etymology === From Low German blick, from Middle Low German bleck, from Old Saxon *blek, from Proto-West Germanic *blik, from Proto-Germanic *bliką. Compare Danish blik (< Middle Low German bleck), German Blech (< Old High German bleh). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /blɛk/ Homophones: bläck Rhymes: -ɛkː === Noun === bleck n tin plate sheet metal ==== Declension ==== === See also === välsbleck