FLECK

spot, speckle, dapple, patch, fleck, maculation

(noun) a small contrasting part of something; “a bald spot”; “a leopard’s spots”; “a patch of clouds”; “patches of thin ice”; “a fleck of red”

bit, chip, flake, fleck, scrap

(noun) a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; “a bit of rock caught him in the eye”

spot, fleck, blob, blot

(verb) make a spot or mark onto; “The wine spotted the tablecloth”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

fleck (plural flecks)

A flake

A lock, as of wool.

A small spot or streak; a speckle.

Verb

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

(transitive) To mark with small spots

Proper noun

Fleck

A surname.

Source: Wiktionary

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Fleck, n.

Definition: A flake; also, a lock, as of wool. [Obs.] J. Martin.

Fleck, n. Etym: [Cf. Icel. flekkr; akin to Sw. fläck, D. vlek, G. fleck, and perh. to E. flitch.]

Definition: A spot; a streak; a speckle. "A sunny fleck." Longfellow. Life is dashed with flecks of sin. tennyson.

Fleck, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flecked; p. pr. & vb. n. Flecking.] Etym: [Cf. Icel. flekka, Sw. fläcka, D. vlekken, vlakken, G. flecken. See Fleck, n.]

Definition: To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple. Both flecked with white, the true Arcadian strain. Dryden. A bird, a cloud, flecking the sunny air. Trench.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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