Blake
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /bleɪk/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Blake is an adjective meaning Yellow, as butter or cheese.
Meaning
Yellow, as butter or cheese.
Example Sentences
White shows the rye, the big of big of blaker hue,[…]
Noo, that's a bit o' neyce blake butter. Thoo nobbut leeaks blakeish.
Miss Lizzie's ower dark for my fancy. I mind nowt aboot your dark lasses - as blake as marygowds an' as black as corbies.
[…] 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.
Word Forms
- blaker
- blakest
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include black, honor, ebony, sable, jet, inky.
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