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- Dictionaryfleck/flek/
noun
- 1. a very small patch of color or light: "his blue eyes had gray flecks in them"
verb
- 1. mark or dot with small patches of color or particles of something: "the minarets are flecked with gold leaf"
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noun. 1. : spot, mark. a brown tweed with flecks of yellow. 2. : flake, particle. flecks of snow drifted down. Synonyms. Verb. blotch. dapple. dot. freckle. marble. mottle. pepper. shoot.
a small mark or spot: Blackbirds' eggs are pale blue with brown flecks on them. fleck of I got a few flecks of paint on the window. Synonyms. speckle. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. a mark on something. mark The backs of the chairs have left marks on the wall. stain She had grass stains on her white jeans.
A fleck is a small patch that is different and stands out from the background, like the flecks of green in your blue eyes. A fleck can also be a fragment of something, like the flecks of peeling paint you might see on the floor in an old building.
noun. 1. a spot or small patch of color, etc.; speck. flecks of sunlight. 2. a small piece; particle; flake. verb transitive. 3.
a small mark or spot: Blackbirds' eggs are pale blue with brown flecks on them. fleck of I got a few flecks of paint on the window. Synonyms. speckle. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. a mark on something. mark The backs of the chairs have left marks on the wall. stain She had grass stains on her white jeans.
n. 1. A tiny mark or spot: flecks of mica in the rock. 2. A small bit or flake: a fleck of dandruff. tr.v. flecked, fleck·ing, flecks. To spot or streak: the path was flecked with sunlight. [Probably from Middle English flekked, spotted; akin to Old Norse flekkr, spot.] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
: to put small spots or marks of something on different parts of (a surface) She flecked the canvas with blue paint. — usually used as (be) flecked. a brown beard flecked with gray [=a brown beard that has many small areas or spots of gray] snow flecked with mud = mud- flecked snow. FLECK meaning: a small spot or mark.
Fleck Definition. flĕk. flecked, flecks. Meanings. Synonyms. Sentences. Definition Source. Word Forms. Origin. Noun. Verb. Pronoun. Filter. noun. flecks. A spot or small patch of color, etc.; speck. Flecks of sunlight. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. A small piece; particle; flake. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. A flake.
OED's earliest evidence for fleck is from 1598, in the writing of John Florio, author and teacher of languages. It is also recorded as a verb from the Middle English period (1150—1500). Perhaps (i) a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Or perhaps (ii) a word inherited from Germanic.
a mark, or a very small piece of something: His shirt was covered in flecks of paint. (Definition of fleck from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of fleck. in Chinese (Traditional) 斑點… See more. in Chinese (Simplified) 斑点… See more. in Spanish. mota… See more. in Portuguese. partícula… See more.
