flack

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A publicist, a publicity agent. Canada,US
    — Edward Bernay, who was a consultant to the US Delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference which terminated the first World War (and who finally wound up as a flack for the United Fruit Company in Latin America), believed that propaganda and its covert marketing could effectively alter the will of the American public.
  2. Alternative spelling of flak. alt-of,alternative,countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To flutter; palpitate. intransitive,obsolete
  2. To publicise, to promote. Canada,US
    — [..] he told funny stories about his early days in the theater district, flacking shows up and down the street, but Klara wasn’t listening.
  3. To hang loosely; flag. UK,dialectal,intransitive
  4. To beat by flapping. UK,dialectal,transitive

词形变化

flacks present,singular,third-person flacking participle,present flacked participle,past flacked past flacks plural flacks present,singular,third-person flacking participle,present flacked participle,past flacked past flacks plural

词汇关系

衍生词
flacker

词源

词源 1
From Middle English flacken (“to palpitate, flutter”), from Old English *flaccian, from Proto-West Germanic *flakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *flakkōną (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ-, which could be related to Ancient Greek πλάζω (plázō, “to turn away from”).
Akin to Middle Dutch vlacken (“to flicker, flash, sparkle”), Danish flakke (“to wander”), Swedish flacka (“to rove, rove about, ramble”), Icelandic flakka (“to move”). Compare also Icelandic flaka (“to flap, hang loose”), Swedish flaxa (“to flap, flutter”).
词源 2
Most likely flak.
词源 3
Variant of flak.
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