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fleak¹

  • /fliːk/ UK
  • /flik/ US

Sounds like fleek · Rhymes with -iːk

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A variant of flake (noun, verb).

noun fleaks

  1. dialectal A small, light piece that is only loosely joined to something else, and which has a tendency to detach. The uſes indeed of the forenamed Plants are ſo univerſall, and take place ſo in every affaire of Man, that if it vvere lavvfull to be a little merry in ſo ſerious a matter, a man might not unfittingly apply that verſe of the Poet [Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters from the Black Sea), book IV, 3-35]
  2. dialectal A thin piece that is chipped or peeled off from the surface of something else. Plutarke alſo calleth this beaſt a meticulous and fearefull beaſt, and in this cauſe concludeth the change of his colour, not as ſome ſay, to auoyde and deceiue the beholders and to vvorke out his ovvne happineuſſe, but for meere dread and terrour. […] But I for my part doe aſſigne the true cauſe to

    Similar: chip, splinter, bit, chunk, tranche, clip, crumb, crumbling, cutting, flake, fleak, fragment

  3. dialectal A thin piece that the flesh of some animals (such as fish) tends to break into. Upon Examination, I found that they [the fat] conſiſted of regular large Laminæ: vvhich vvere eaſily ſeparable from one another, in broad Fleaks; […]

verb fleaks · fleaking · fleaked

  1. obsolete, rare, transitive Synonym of flake (“to remove (something) in fleaks or flakes (small chips or pieces)”). [M]any of them made use of flint for knives, […] this flint is of no regular form, and if they can only obtain a part of it, an inch or two in length that will cut they are satisfyed, they renew the edge by fleaking off the flint by means of the point of an Elk's or deer's horn.

    Similar: flake

fleak²

  • /fliːk/ UK
  • /flik/ US

Sounds like fleek · Rhymes with -iːk

Where it comes from

A variant of fleck (verb).

verb fleaks · fleaking · fleaked

  1. ambitransitive, obsolete Synonym of fleck. [Edward] Young's Satires have been quite eclipsed by the fame of his Night Thoughts; a work the sublimity and dark splendour of which is fleaked with the wit and fancy which were essential constituents of his mind.

    Similar: fleck

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@misc{fleak_2026,
  title = {fleak},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fleak},
  urldate = {2026-11-05}
}