bleck

plural blecks

1. Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease.
2. Ink.
3. Soot, smut.
4. obsoleteA black man.
5. dialectalCoalfish (Pollachius virens).

present singular third person blecks · participle present blecking · participle past blecked · past blecked

1. dialectalobsoleteTo blacken.
2. dialectalobsoleteTo defile.

   1 more example

   Þerfore ȝif oure prelatis or oþere prestis, whatevere þei ben, ben opinly blecked by sacrifise of maumetrie, as wiþ covetise, þat is opinly sacrifise of fals goddys, and oþere grete sinnes, as pride, symonye, and man-quellinge, glotonye, dronkenesse, and lecherie, by þe same skil tyþis or offringis shulde be wiþdrawyn from hem by Goddis lawe, and be ȝoven to poeure nedy men, at ensaumple of riȝtful Tobie.

   Therefore if our prelates or other priests, whatever they be, be openly defiled by sacrifice of maumetry, as with covetousness, that is open sacrifice of false gods, and other great sins, as pride, simony, and manquelling, gluttony, drunkenness, and lechery, by the same skill tithes or offerings should be withdrawn from them by God's law, and be given to poor needy men, by example of rightful Tobias.

   1382, John Wycliffe, A Petition to the King and Parliament; republished as chapter 33, in Thomas Arnold, editor, Select English works of John Wyclif, volume 3, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869, Tobit i. 8., page 518

1. alternativerareAlternative form of blech.

   Synonyms: feh, pfaugh, pish, pshaw, pooh

1. A surname.