bleck

See also: Bleck and Bléck

Contents
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
Etymology 2
Verb
Related terms
Etymology 3
Interjection
Synonyms

Scots
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
Noun
References
Swedish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
Declension
See also

English

Pronunciation
IPA(key): /blɛk/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
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)

1. Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease.

2. Soot, smut.
3. (obsolete) A black man.
4. (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)

1. (obsolete, dialect) To blacken.

 2. (obsolete, dialect) To defile.

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Related terms
blatch
bletch

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain.
The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bleck (http://www.websters1913.com/words/Bleck)”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C.
Merriam, 1913, →OCLC (https://www.worldcat.org/title/800618302).)

Etymology 3

Imitative.

Interjection

bleck

1. (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)

1. (South Scots) black

Noun

bleck

1. A challenge to a feat of exceptional skill; a baffle in reaction to such a feat.

2. A puzzle.
3. (South Scots) black

References

“bleck, n.1, v.1 (https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/bleck_n1_v1)” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language
Dictionaries.

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

Noun

bleck n

1. tin plate
2. sheet metal

Declension
Declension of bleck 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative bleck blecket bleck blecken
Genitive blecks bleckets blecks bleckens

See also
välsbleck

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