See also: Blake and blakė

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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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  • Rhymes: -eɪk

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blake (comparative blaker or more blake, superlative blakest or most blake) (UK dialectal, Northern England, poetic)

  1. Pale, pallid; wan; sallow; of a sickly hue.
  2. Yellow, as butter or cheese.
  3. Bleak, cold; bare, naked.

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blake

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of blaken

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blake

  1. inflection of blaken:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

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blake

  1. Alternative form of blak

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blake

  1. Alternative form of bloken