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East Central German
Noun
flemme
- (Erzgebirgisch) to cry, to weep
Further reading
2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch, 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 43:
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian flemma, from Latin phlegma (“phlegm”), one of the four bodily humours, thought to cause a sluggish and unemotional nature. First attested in the late 1700s.
Doublet of flegme.
Pronunciation
Noun
flemme f (countable and uncountable, plural flemmes)
- (informal) laziness
- Synonym: paresse
- J’ai la flemme de le faire. ― I can't be bothered to do it.
- (obsolete) lazy person
- Synonym: paresseux
1917, Maurice Genevois, Nuits de guerre [Nights of War], page 34:Allons, quoi ! grande flemme lève-toi […]- Let's go, huh! You big sloth, get up
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Italian
Noun
flemme f
- plural of flemma
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