flus

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See also: fłūs

English

Pronunciation

Noun

flus

  1. plural of flu

Anagrams

Czech

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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, .

Usage notes

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

Declension

Declension of flus (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative flus flusy
genitive flusu flusů
dative flusu flusům
accusative flus flusy
vocative fluse flusy
locative flusu flusech
instrumental flusem flusy

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “flusat”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, page 192

Further reading

  • flus in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • flus in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse flus.

Pronunciation

Noun

flus n (genitive singular flus, plural flus)

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

Declension

n11 Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative flus flusið flus flusini
Accusative flus flusið flus flusini
Dative flusi flusinum flusum flusunum
Genitive flus flusins flusa flusanna

Maltese

Etymology

Root
f-l-s
5 terms

From Arabic فُلُوس (fulūs).

Pronunciation

Noun

flus m sg or pl (plural flejjes)

  1. money

Usage notes

  • 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”.

Middle English

Noun

flus

  1. Alternative form of flees
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