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bleck.

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

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

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

  2. Ink.

  3. Soot, smut.

  4. A black man.

    obsolete
  5. Coalfish (Pollachius virens).

    dialectal
Where this word 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”).

verb/blɛk/
  1. To blacken.

    dialectal · obsolete
  2. To defile.

    dialectal · obsolete
Where this word comes from

From Middle English blekken, from the noun above.

intj/blɛk/
  1. Alternative form of blech.

    alt-of · alternative · rare
Where this word comes from

Imitative.

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