fleck, verb transitive
/flek/
- Forms:
- Also flek.
- Origin:
- Englished form of Afrikaans vlek.
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.
vlek.
- Derivatives:
- Hence flecked participial adjective; flecking verbal noun, the action or process of gutting or opening out (a fish or carcass); vlekking, see vlek.1993 Flying Springbok Apr. 123Flecking, salting and wind-drying ensure unsurpassed flavour and texture.
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