# bleck

> English word · Noun · IPA /blɛk/

## Definitions
1. Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease.
2. Soot, smut.
3. A black man.
4. Coalfish (Pollachius virens).

## Etymology
From Middle English blek (“ink”), from Old Norse blek (“black tint, ink”), from Old English blæc (“black tint or dye, ink”), from Proto-West Germanic *blak, from Proto-Germanic *blaką (“that which is black; blackness”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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