blake
adjectivecommon in dialogue
- //bleɪk//
Yellow, as butter or cheese.
adjective
- 1
Yellow, as butter or cheese.
White shows the rye, the big of big of blaker hue,[…]
[…] 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.
Miss Lizzie's ower dark for my fancy. I mind nowt aboot your dark lasses - as blake as marygowds an' as black as corbies.
Noo, that's a bit o' neyce blake butter. Thoo nobbut leeaks blakeish.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ-der. Proto-Germanic *blaikaz Proto-West Germanic *blaik Old English blāc Middle English blake English blake 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.
Forms
- comparative
- blaker, more blake
- superlative
- blakest, most blake