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bleck

Pronunciation: /blɛk/

The English word “bleck” has 7 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease.
  2. Ink.
  3. Soot, smut.
  4. A black man.
  5. Coalfish (Pollachius virens).

verb

  1. To blacken.
  2. To defile.

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”).

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