fluks

From Middle Low German vlugs, vluges. Compare German flugs.

• IPA^(key): /flɔks/, [flɔɡ̊s]

fluks

1. straightaway

• straks
• øjeblikkelig

• (all obsolete) flux, fluckx, flukx
• (obsolete, hypercorrection) fluksch

From Middle Dutch vluchs, vloechs, vloochs, genitive of vloge (“flight”); see vleug for more. In its modern form influenced by German flugs.

• IPA^(key): /flʏks/

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• Rhymes: -ʏks
• Homophone: flux

fluks (comparative flukser, superlative meest fluks or flukst)

1. (now dialectal) quick

   Synonyms: rap, vlug, snel

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “fluks”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Borrowed from English flux, from Old French flux, from Latin fluxus (“flow”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈflʊk(s)/

fluks (plural fluks-fluks)

1. flux:
   1. the act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream
   2. diarrhea or other fluid discharge from the body
   3. (physics) the rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity), especially an electric or magnetic field, through a given surface

• “fluks” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

fluks

1. quickly, swiftly, rapidly

• IPA^(key): /flûks/

flȕks m inan (Cyrillic spelling флу̏кс)

1. (rare) flux

   Synonym: tȏk