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blake.

Yellow, as butter or cheese.

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/bleɪk/
  1. Yellow, as butter or cheese.

    Northern-England · UK · dialectal · poetic · uncommon
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ-der. Proto-Germanic *blaikaz Proto-West Germanic *blaik Old English blāc Middle English blake English blake From Middle English blak, blac (“pale”), from Old English blāc (“pale, pallid, wan, livid; bright, shining, glittering, flashing”) and Old Norse bleikr (“pale; yellow, pink; any non-red warm color”); both from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale; shining”). Compare Scots bleg (“light, drab”). More at bleak.

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