fleck, verb transitive

/flek/
Forms:
Also flek.
Origin:
Afrikaans
vlek.
1890 A.G. Hewitt Cape Cookery 11Have the snoek cut into motjes, not flekked, put the pieces to drain.
1973 Farmer’s Weekly 18 Apr. 101The fish has a firm but a delicate flesh which rapidly goes soft and bad unless it is ‘flecked’, i.e. cut down the back and backbone and entrails removed, soon after it is caught.
Derivatives:
Hence flecked  participial adjective; flecking  verbal noun, the action or process of gutting or opening out (a fish or carcass); vlekking, see vlek.
1960 [see stellasie].
1977 S. Stander Flight from Hunter 158Mbanji was still hunched over the antbear carcass, skinning it out, using the flecked-out hide to keep the raw meat clean of sand.
1993 Flying Springbok Apr. 123Flecking, salting and wind-drying ensure unsurpassed flavour and texture.
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flauw, adjectiveadj.fliek, nounn.
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