flugs
See also: Flugs
German
editEtymology
editFrom Middle High German vluges, adverbial genitive from vluc, whence modern Flug (“flight, flying”). Compare Dutch vlug (“quickly”), which is a related, though not identical word.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /fluːks/ (standard)
- IPA(key): /flʊxs/ (northern and central Germany; becoming rare for this word)
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Adverb
editflugs
Usage notes
edit- Though infrequent, the word still sees regular use in literary style. In the spoken language it is almost unused, except rarely in collocation with verbs for “fleeing, abscoding”. One might still hear sich flugs davonmachen, sich flugs vom Acker machen, for example.
Further reading
editIcelandic
editNoun
editflugs n