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bleck

noun
/blɛk/

Etymology

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”).

  1. derived from *blaką✻ — “that which is black; blackness”
  2. derived from *blak✻
  3. derived from blæc — “black tint or dye, ink”
  4. derived from blek — “black tint, ink”
  5. inherited from blek — “ink”

Definitions

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

  2. Ink.

  3. Soot, smut.

  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A black man.

    2. Coalfish (Pollachius virens).

    3. To blacken.

    4. To defile.

    5. Alternative form of blech.

    6. A surname.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA