Fleck vs Cleck - What's the difference?
fleck | cleck |
A flake
A lock, as of wool.
A small spot or streak; a speckle.
* Longfellow
* Tennyson
To mark with small spots
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*: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.
(chiefly, Scotland) To hatch (of birds); colloquially , of people, to be born.
*1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 46:
*:Poor he might be, but the creature wasn't yet clecked that might put on its airs with him, John Guthrie.
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As an adjective fleck
is fledged, full-fledged.As a verb cleck is
(chiefly|scotland) to hatch (of birds); colloquially , of people, to be born.fleck
English
Noun
(en noun)- A sunny fleck .
- Life is dashed with flecks of sin.