• IPA: /flɛk/

fleck (plural flecks)

1. A flake
2. A lock, as of wool.
3. A small spot or streak; a speckle.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Talking Oak

     A sunny fleck.

• French: tache
• German: Fleck
• Italian: puntino
• Portuguese: mancha, pinta
• Russian: кра́пинка
• Spanish: mota

fleck (flecks, present participle flecking; past and past participle flecked)

1. (transitive) To mark with small spots
   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803 ↗:

     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.

• French: tacheter, moucheter
• Portuguese: manchar

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