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blake

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
13
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/bleɪk/

Definition of blake

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (Northern-England, UK, dialectal, poetic, uncommon)Yellow, as butter or cheese.
    “White shows the rye, the big of big of blaker hue,[…]”
    “[…] the E. blake (identical with AS. blac, G. bleich, pale) is provincially used in the sense of yellow. As blake as a paigle, as yellow as a cowslip.”
    “Miss Lizzie's ower dark for my fancy. I mind nowt aboot your dark lasses - as blake as marygowds an' as black as corbies.”
    “Noo, that's a bit o' neyce blake butter. Thoo nobbut leeaks blakeish.”
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adj

  1. (Northern-England, UK, dialectal, poetic, uncommon)Yellow, as butter or cheese.
    “White shows the rye, the big of big of blaker hue,[…]”
    “[…] the E. blake (identical with AS. blac, G. bleich, pale) is provincially used in the sense of yellow. As blake as a paigle, as yellow as a cowslip.”
    “Miss Lizzie's ower dark for my fancy. I mind nowt aboot your dark lasses - as blake as marygowds an' as black as corbies.”
    “Noo, that's a bit o' neyce blake butter. Thoo nobbut leeaks blakeish.”

name

  1. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
  2. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
  3. (countable, uncountable)A unisex given name.
  4. (countable, uncountable)A unisex given name.
  5. (countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community in Owsley County, Kentucky, United States.

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ-der. Proto-Germanic *blaikaz Proto-West Germanic *blaik Old English blāc Middle English blake English blake From Middle English blak, blac (“pale”), from Old English blāc (“pale,…

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ-der. Proto-Germanic *blaikaz Proto-West Germanic *blaik Old English blāc Middle English blake English blake From Middle English blak, blac (“pale”), from Old English blāc (“pale, pallid, wan, livid; bright, shining, glittering, flashing”) and Old Norse bleikr (“pale; yellow, pink; any non-red warm color”); both from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale; shining”). Compare Scots bleg (“light, drab”). More at bleak.

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