Flack vs Alack - What's the difference?
flack | alack |
a publicist, a publicity agent
*1998 , , Art Crime: The Montage Art of Winston Smith ,
*:Edward Bernay, who was a consultant to the US Delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference which terminated the first World War (and who finally wound up as a flack for the United Fruit Company in Latin America), believed that propaganda and its covert marketing could effectively alter the will of the American public.
*1999 , Patricia Cornwell, The Southern Cross,
*:Thought you were flack ," she said.
*:"I'm not flack ."
*:"All right, P.R., a reporter, a novelist."
to publicise, to promote
* 1997 , Don DeLillo, Underworld :
An expression of sorrow or mourning.
As a noun flack
is flake (esp of snow).As an interjection alack is
an expression of sorrow or mourning.flack
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)page 25
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Verb
(en verb)- [..] he told funny stories about his early days in the theater district, flacking shows up and down the street, but Klara wasn’t listening.
Etymology 3
Variant of flak.Noun
alack
English
Interjection
(en interjection)- On a day (alack the day!)
- Love, whose month is ever May,
- Spied a blossom passing fair
- Playing in the wanton air.'' – '' – Shakespeare