flackとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /flæk/
• 韻: -æk
• Homophone: flak

語源 1

From Middle English flacken (“to palpitate, flutter”), from 古期英語 *flaccian, from Proto-West Germanic *flakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *flakkōną (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ-, which could be related to Ancient Greek πλάζω (plázō, “to turn away from”).

Akin to Middle Dutch vlacken (“to flicker, flash, sparkle”), Danish flakke (“to wander”), Swedish flacka (“to rove, rove about, ramble”), Icelandic flakka (“to move”). Compare also Icelandic flaka (“to flap, hang loose”), Swedish flaxa (“to flap, flutter”).

動詞

flack (三人称単数 現在形 flacks, 現在分詞 flacking, 過去形および過去分詞形 flacked)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To flutter; palpitate.
2. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To hang loosely; flag.
3. (transitive, UK dialectal) To beat by flapping.

語源 2

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名詞

flack (複数形 flacks)

1. (Canada, 米国用法) A publicist, a publicity agent.
   • 1998, Winston Smith, Art Crime: The Montage Art of Winston Smith‎^[1], page 25:

     Edward Bernay, who was a consultant to the US Delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference which terminated the first World War (かつ who finally wound up as a flack for the United Fruit Company in Latin America), believed that propaganda and its covert marketing could effectively alter the will of the American public.

   • 1999, Patricia Cornwell, The Southern Cross, page 233

     Thought you were flack," she said.

     "I'm not flack."

     "All right, P.R., a reporter, a novelist."

   • 2020 October 12, Andrew Marantz, “Why Facebook Can’t Fix Itself”, in The New Yorker‎^[2]:

     In July, Nick Clegg, a former Deputy Prime Minister of the U.K. who is now a top flack at Facebook, published a piece on AdAge.com and on the company’s official blog titled “Facebook Does Not Benefit from Hate,” in which he wrote, “There is no incentive for us to do anything but remove it.”

動詞

flack (三人称単数 現在形 flacks, 現在分詞 flacking, 過去形および過去分詞形 flacked)

1. (Canada, 米国用法) To publicise, to promote.
   • 1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld:

     [..] he told funny stories about his early days in the theater district, flacking shows up and down the street, but Klara wasn’t listening.

語源 3