blake
Pronunciations
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/bleɪk/
Adjective
Yellow, as butter or cheese.
Usage- Northern-England
- UK usage
- dialectal
- Poetic
- Uncommon
- Related words
- Examples
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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.
More examples (2)
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.
Word forms
blakermore blakeblakestmost blake