Synonyms for fleck
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : flek |
| Phonetic Transcription : flɛk |
Top 10 synonyms for fleck Other synonyms for the word fleck
Définition of fleck
Origin :- late 14c., probably from Old Norse flekka "to spot," from Proto-Germanic *flekk- (cf. Middle Dutch vlecke, Old High German flec, German Fleck), from PIE *pleik- "to tear" (see flay). Related: Flecked; flecking.
- noun spot, pinpoint mark
- verb mark with spots
- Any scintilla or fleck of truth I can pick off from a revolutionary, I take but I will not take him.
- Extract from : « The Ghost in the White House » by Gerald Stanley Lee
- There was not a fleck of cloud on all the sky, nor of mist on all the hills.
- Extract from : « The Orphans of Glen Elder » by Margaret Murray Robertson
- Among all this loveliness was glimpsed by Arethusa a fleck of green.
- Extract from : « The Heart of Arethusa » by Francis Barton Fox
- In the days that followed she thought of him as she saw him last, a minute fleck on the plain.
- Extract from : « The Eagle's Heart » by Hamlin Garland
- He knocked out the pipe, crushed a fleck of burning tobacco with his boot.
- Extract from : « Empire » by Clifford Donald Simak
- Nor has every fleck of color gone from the face of the out-of-doors.
- Extract from : « Wild Life Near Home » by Dallas Lore Sharp
- Not even a fleck of foam broke the glassy surface of the swirling current.
- Extract from : « The Inca Emerald » by Samuel Scoville
- On the crest of a wave she caught a fleck of white that was not foam.
- Extract from : « Witches Cove » by Roy J. Snell
- She could have cried at a fleck in the miserable glass which spoiled her view.
- Extract from : « The Duke of Stockbridge » by Edward Bellamy
- He picked up one and blew a fleck of dust from it carefully.
- Extract from : « Bruce of the Circle A » by Harold Titus
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