flus
See also: fłūs
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fluːz/
- Homophone: flues
- Rhymes: -uːz
Czech
Etymology
From early New High 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.]
- 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, […] .
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Usage notes
While in historical texts the word is used neutrally, recently it has been viewed as slightly vulgar.
Declension
Declension
| 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.
Faroese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fluːs/
- Rhymes: -uːs
Noun
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 |
Middle English
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