Bleck
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bleck¹
- /blɛk/
Rhymes with -ɛk
Where it comes from
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 blecks
- Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease.
- Ink.
- Soot, smut.
- A black man.
- Coalfish (Pollachius virens).
bleck²
- /blɛk/
Rhymes with -ɛk
Where it comes from
From Middle English blekken, from the noun above.
verb blecks · blecking · blecked
- To blacken.
- To defile. Þerfore ȝif oure prelatis or oþere prestis, whatevere þei ben, ben opinly blecked by sacrifise of maumetrie, as wiþ covetise, þat is opinly sacrifise of fals goddys, and oþere grete sinnes, as pride, symonye, and man-quellinge, glotonye, dronkenesse, and lecherie, by þe same skil tyþis or offringis
bleck³
- /blɛk/
Rhymes with -ɛk
Where it comes from
Imitative.
interjection
- Alternative form of blech.blech
Bleck⁴
Where it comes from
English surname, spelling variant of Black
proper noun
- A surname.
