flus

See also: fłūs

English

Pronunciation

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

Noun

flus

1. plural of flu

Anagrams

• USFL, Fuls, sulf-, SLUF, ULFs

Czech

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

flus m inan

1. (slightly vulgar) gob of spit, phlegm [16th c.]

   Synonyms: hlen, chrchel, plivnutí

   • 1902, Vlast‎^[1], 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

• flusanec
• flusat
• flusání
• flusnout
• flusnutí
• jít po něčem jako slepice po flusu
• naflusat
• neflusat
• vyflusnout
• vyflusnutý

Further reading

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

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse flus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fluːs/
• Rhymes: -uːs

Noun

flus n (genitive singular flus, plural flus)

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

Declension

Declension of flus (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

• IPA^(key): /fluːs/

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