flack

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /flæk/ Rhymes: -æk Homophone: flak === Etymology 1 === From Middle English flacken (“to palpitate, flutter”), from Old English *flaccian, from Proto-West Germanic *flakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *flakkōną (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ-, which could be related to Ancient Greek πλάζω (plázō, “to turn away from”). Akin to Middle Dutch vlacken (“to flicker, flash, sparkle”), Danish flakke (“to wander”), Swedish flacka (“to rove, rove about, ramble”), Icelandic flakka (“to move”). Compare also Icelandic flaka (“to flap, hang loose”), Swedish flaxa (“to flap, flutter”). ==== Verb ==== flack (third-person singular simple present flacks, present participle flacking, simple past and past participle flacked) (intransitive, obsolete) To flutter; palpitate. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To hang loosely; flag. (transitive, UK dialectal) To beat by flapping. ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 2 === Most likely flak. ==== Noun ==== flack (plural flacks) (Canada, US) A publicist, a publicity agent. ===== Derived terms ===== ==== Verb ==== flack (third-person singular simple present flacks, present participle flacking, simple past and past participle flacked) (Canada, US) To publicise, to promote. === Etymology 3 === Variant of flak. ==== Noun ==== flack (countable and uncountable, plural flacks) Alternative spelling of flak. === Further reading === “flack”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “flack”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Anagrams === Falck