Flacked vs Flocked - What's the difference?
flacked | flocked |
(flack)
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 :
(flock)
A large number of birds, especially those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
A large number of animals, especially sheep or goats kept together.
Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.
* {{quote-book
, year=1995
, author=Green Key Books
, title=God's Word to the Nations (John 10:16)
* Tennyson
A large number of people.
* Bible, 2 Macc. xiv. 14
To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To flock to; to crowd.
* 1609 , Taylor
To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles.
Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding
A lock of wool or hair.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks in the point [pommel].
Very fine sifted woollen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, formerly used as a coating for wallpaper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fibre used for a similar purpose.
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*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock -paper on the walls.
As verbs the difference between flacked and flocked
is that flacked is past tense of flack while flocked is past tense of flock.flacked
English
Verb
(head)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
flocked
English
Verb
(head)flock
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=I also have other sheep that are not from this pen. I must lead them. They, too, will respond to my voice. So they will be one flock with one shepherd. }}
- As half amazed, half frighted all his flock .
- The heathen came to Nicanor by flocks .
Synonyms
* congregation, bunch, gaggle, horde, host, legion, litter, nest, rabble, swarm, throng, wakeVerb
(en verb)- People flocked to the cinema to see the new film.
- Friends daily flock .
- Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so.