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発音

• IPA: /flɛk/
• 韻: -ɛk

名詞

fleck (plural flecks)

1. A flake.
   • 1675, William Rabisha, The Whole Body of Cookery Dissected, Taught and Fully:

     two flecks of Lard cut with your knife

2. A lock, as of wool.
   • 1861, Theodore Martin, The poems of Catullus, translated into English verse:

     With teeth they smooth their work, as on it slips,
     And flecks of wool stick to their wither'd lips

   • 2015, Graham Masterson, Eye for an Eye: A Katie Maguire Short Story:

     A single fleck of wool from his sock got caught on a splintery floorboard and that was enough to convict him.

3. A small spot or streak; a speckle.

   Synonyms: mote, particle, speck, tittle

   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto LI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 74:

     So fret not, like an idle girl, / That life is dash'd with flecks of sin. / Abide: thy wealth is gathered in, / When Time hath sunder'd shell from pearl.

4. A small amount.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:modicum

   a fleck of hope

   a fleck of imagination

派生語

動詞

fleck (third-person singular simple present flecks, present participle flecking, simple past and past participle flecked)

1. (transitive) To mark (something) with small spots.

   Synonym: (obsolete) fleak

   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

   • 1989 December 17, Nan Donald, “Broken Hearts, Messed Up Families, And New Beginnings”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 23, page 9:

     The Names of the Moons of Mars is a frequently somber book, flecked through with optimism and humor.