fluquice

Macanese

Etymology

English fluke +‎ -ice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fluˈki.se/

Noun

fluquice

1. good luck at gambling
2. a good move made by mere chance, stroke of luck

   Qui fluquice!

   What good luck!

Usage notes

• The Portuguese suffix -ice is largely not productive in Macanese other than this term and possibly imposturice (“vanity; ostentation”).

Related terms

• fluquêro

References

• Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “fluquice”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 445
• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#f