Standard Lemma guide

bleck

intj · name · noun · verb · 9 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /blɛk/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɛk
  • CMU ARPABET: B L EH1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

intj

Meaning 1

Alternative form of blech.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, alternative, rare

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2

name

Meaning 2

A surname.

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3

noun

Meaning 3

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

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4

noun

Meaning 4

Ink.

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5

noun

Meaning 5

Soot, smut.

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6

noun

Meaning 6

A black man.

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Usage: obsolete

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7

noun

Meaning 7

Coalfish (Pollachius virens).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: dialectal

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8

verb

Meaning 8

To blacken.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: dialectal, obsolete

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9

verb

Meaning 9

To defile.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: dialectal, obsolete

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History

Etymology

Imitative.

English surname, spelling variant of Black

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”).

From Middle English blekken, from the noun above.