- 1a very small area of a particular colour His hair was dark, with flecks of grey. The material has a red fleck in it. Wordfinderpatternband, check, dot, fleck, pattern, speckle, splash, spot, streak, stripe
- 2a very small piece of something flecks of dust/foam/dandruff Her face was covered with flecks of paint. Word Originlate Middle English (as a verb): perhaps from Old Norse flekkr (noun), flekka (verb), or from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch vlecke.
fleck
nounBrE BrE//flek//; NAmE NAmE//flek//
[usually plural] fleck (of something)Check pronunciation: fleck