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Flack vs Plack - What's the difference?

flack | plack |

As nouns the difference between flack and plack

is that flack is flake (esp of snow) while plack is sheet, plate (of metal).

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

    • plack

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) placke, from (etyl) . Compare (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of various small coins used in Scotland and the Netherlands during the 15th and 16th centuries, having a value in Scotland of four pennies Scots.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (lb)
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