flusk

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verb

To make a whirring or fluttering sound.

OriginMiddle English *flusken ← Old Norse *flugsa ← Proto-Germanic *flugisōną →
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Meanings

verbflusk (third-person singular simple present flusks, present participle flusking, simple past and past participle flusked)

present singular third person flusks · participle present flusking · participle past flusked · past flusked

  1. Northern EnglandintransitiveTo make a whirring or fluttering sound.
  2. Northern EnglandintransitiveTo fly at; ruffle up the feathers.
  3. Northern EnglandintransitiveTo quarrel.
  4. Northern EnglandtransitiveTo startle or confuse.
nounflusk (plural flusks)

plural flusks

  1. Northern EnglandA whirring sound.
  2. Northern EnglandA flutter.
  3. Northern EnglandA quarrel, contention, skirmish, fight.

Origin

  1. Proto-Germanic*flugisōną“to flutter”
  2. Old Norse*flugsa“to flap, flutter”
  3. Middle English*flusken
  4. Englishflusk

Uncertain. Likely from Middle English *flusken, a variant of flusshen (“to move rapidly, dart”), the same origin as flush. Perhaps from Old Norse *flugsa (“to flap, flutter”), from Proto-Germanic *flugisōną (“to flutter”); compare Norwegian Nynorsk flugsa (“to flutter”), Norwegian Bokmål flugse (“to flutter”). Compare also Norwegian flogsa, flogse (“to run around, frolic, flirt”), Faroese flogsa (“to gad about, solicit”).

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Chicago

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