flemme
East Central German edit
Noun edit
flemme
- (Erzgebirgisch) to cry, to weep
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch[1], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 43:
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian flemma, from Latin phlegma (“phlegm”), one of the four bodily humours, thought to cause a sluggish and unemotional nature. First attested in the late 1700s.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
flemme f (countable and uncountable, plural flemmes)
- (informal) laziness
- Synonym: paresse
- J’ai la flemme de le faire. ― I can't be bothered to do it.
- (obsolete) lazy person
- Synonym: paresseux
- 1917, Maurice Genevois, Nuits de guerre [Nights of War], page 34:
- Allons, quoi ! grande flemme lève-toi […]
- Let's go, huh! You big sloth, get up […]
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “flemme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Noun edit
flemme f
Further reading edit
- “flemme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.