blank

Meaning

1. (archaic) bright
2. spotlessly clean; shining; polished
3. bare; naked; uncovered
4. pure; sheer
5. (colloquial) broke; out of money
6. being a player’s last one of a respective grouping of cards (which means that the card is unprotected when the player must follow suit in trick-taking games)

Pronounced as (IPA)

/blaŋk/

Etymology

From Middle High German blanc, from Old High German blanc (“shining, bright”), from Proto-West Germanic *blank. Doublet of Plenk.