flus
See also: fłūs
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fluːz/
- Homophone: flues
- Rhymes: -uːz
Noun
flus
- plural of flu
Anagrams
- Fuls, SLUF, USFL, sulf-
Czech
Etymology
From Early Modern German fluss (“stream”), from fliessen (“to flow”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈflus]
- Rhymes: -us
- Hyphenation: flus
Noun
flus m inan
- (slightly vulgar) gob of spit, phlegm [16th c.]
- 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
| 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
- flusanec
- flusání
- flusat
- flusnout
- flusnutí
- jít po něčem jako slepice po flusu
- naflusat
- neflusat
- vyflusnout
- vyflusnutý
References
- "flusat" in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, Leda, 2015, →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
- IPA(key): /fluːs/
- Rhymes: -uːs
Noun
flus n (genitive singular flus, plural flus)
- peelings (from a potato or apple)
- (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 |
| 1 term |
From Arabic فُلُوس (fulūs).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fluːs/
Noun
flus m sg or pl (plural flejjes)
- 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
- Alternative form of flees