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German
Etymology
From Middle High German vluges, adverbial genitive from vluc, whence modern Flug (“flight, flying”). Compare Dutch vlug (“quickly”), which is a related, though not identical word.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flʊks/ (standard)
- IPA(key): /flʊxs/ (northern and central Germany; becoming rare for this word)
Adverb
flugs
- (dated, formal) quickly
Usage notes
- Though infrequent, the word still sees regular use in literary style. In the spoken language it is almost unused, except rarely in collocation with verbs for “fleeing, abscoding”. One might still hear sich flugs davonmachen, sich flugs vom Acker machen, for example.
Further reading
- “flugs” in Duden online
- “flugs” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Icelandic
Noun
flugs n
- indefinite genitive singular of flug