Flack vs Lack - What's the difference?
flack | lack |
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 :
(obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
*
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, passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.}}
A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
* Shakespeare
* 1994 , (Green Day),
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=September 7, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= To be without, to need, to require.
To be short (of'' or ''for something).
* Shakespeare
To be in want.
* Bible, Psalms xxxiv. 10
As a noun flack
is flake (esp of snow).As a verb lack is
.flack
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)page 25
page 233
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
lack
English
Noun
(en noun)- Let his lack of years be no impediment.
- I went to a shrink, to analyze my dreams. He said it's lack of sex that's bringing me down.''
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Antonyms
* glut * surplusVerb
(en verb)- My life lacks excitement.
- He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.
- What hour now? I think it lacks of twelve.
- The young lions do lack , and suffer hunger.