flugs

See also: Flugs

German

Etymology

From 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, and fluks, which originates in Middle Dutch but is in its modern form influenced by German.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /flʊks/, (also) /fluːks/
  • IPA(key): /flʊxs/ (northern and central Germany; becoming rare for this word)

Adverb

flugs

  1. (dated, formal) quickly

Usage notes

  • Though infrequent, the word still sees regular use in literary style. In the spoken language it is almost unused, except sometimes in collocation with verbs for “fleeing, abscoding”. So one may still hear sich flugs davonmachen, sich flugs vom Acker machen, and the like.

Further reading

  • “flugs” in Duden online
  • “flugs” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Icelandic

Noun

flugs n

  1. indefinite genitive singular of flug
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