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Flack vs Fleck - What's the difference?

flack | fleck |

As verbs the difference between flack and fleck

is that flack is to flutter; palpitate while fleck is to mark with small spots.

As nouns the difference between flack and fleck

is that flack is a publicist, a publicity agent while fleck is a flake.

As a proper noun Fleck is

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flack

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To flutter; palpitate.
  • To hang loosely; flag.
  • To beat by flapping.
  • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a publicist, a publicity agent
  • *1998 , , Art Crime: The Montage Art of Winston Smith , page 25
  • *: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, page 233
  • *:Thought you were flack ," she said.
  • *:"I'm not flack ."
  • *:"All right, P.R., a reporter, a novelist."
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to publicise, to promote
  • * 1997 , Don DeLillo, Underworld :
  • [..] 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

  • fleck

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A flake
  • A lock, as of wool.
  • A small spot or streak; a speckle.
  • * Longfellow
  • A sunny fleck .
  • * Tennyson
  • Life is dashed with flecks of sin.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To mark with small spots
  • *
  • *: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.