An archaic or dialectal word for a flea, or a thin, flake-like piece of something.
Old English or Middle English variant of 'flea,' now archaic. Also possibly related to 'flake,' referring to thin pieces.
English had multiple words for fleas—'fleak' is an ancient variant we've mostly abandoned, but it reminds us that each region and time period named common pests slightly differently.
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