flus

• IPA^(key): /fluːz/
• Homophone: flues
• Rhymes: -uːz

flus

1. plural of flu

• USFL, Fuls, sulf-, SLUF, ULFs

From Early Modern German fluss (“stream”), from fliessen (“to flow”).^[1]

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -us
• Hyphenation: flus

flus m inan

1. (slightly vulgar) gob of spit, phlegm

   Synonyms: hlen, chrchel, plivnutí

   • 1902, Vlast‎, volume 19, page 327:

     Když dobytek zapálení plic dostane, tuž nežere, těžce dýchá, na sucho kašle, žluté flusy jdou z nosu jeho, dostane žluté oči a suchý jazyk, […] .

     When the cattle gets pneumonia, they stop feeding, breath with difficulties, have a dry cough, yellow phlegm flows out of the nostrils, get yellow eyes and dry tongue, .

While in historical texts the word is used neutrally, recently it has been viewed as slightly vulgar.

• “flus”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “flus”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

From Old Norse flus.

• IPA^(key): /fluːs/
• Rhymes: -uːs

flus n (genitive singular flus, plural flus)

1. peelings (from a potato or apple)
2. (hair, biology) dandruff

From Arabic فُلُوس (fulūs).

• IPA^(key): /fluːs/

flus m sg or pl (plural flejjes)

1. money

• The basic sense “money” is now usually construed as a masculine singular, though it may also be construed as a plural. The marked plural flejjes means “several amounts of money”.

flus

1. Alternative form of flees