Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To mark (something) with small spots.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA flake. · A lock, as of wool. · A small spot or streak; a speckle. · A small amount.
From Middle English *flekk, *flekke (attested in Middle English flekked (“spotted, flecked”)), from Old Norse flekkr (“spot”), from Proto-Germanic *flekka-. Cognate with Dutch vlek, German Fleck, Swedish fläck.
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