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with No. flasa, vb., to peel off in large, long flakes; to chip off, and flosa, vb., to loosen off in flosor (flakes). See flis, vb.

flos² [flȯs], sb., a light, passing shower, a f. o’ a shooer [‘shower’]. Wests. occas. May be classed with No. and Icel. flasa, vb., to flirt; go heedlessly on; cf. remarks under flan, vb. For the vowel-sound, cf. flos, vb., from *flasa. A form flis [flɩs, fles, fləs (flʌs)], more comm. used, seems to be another word; see flis (f. 4), sb.

flos [flȯs], vb., to flirt; coquet; dally, to geng ut a-flosin [a-flȯs·ɩn]. Du. No. flasa, vb., to flirt; coquet, flosa, vb., to chatter; Icel. flosi, m., a dandy.

floster [flɔstər, flȯstər], sb., 1) great, confused haste; to be in a f., to rush violently and heedlessly along (U.); to get quickly through one’s work, to do onyting [‘something’] in a f. (Du.). 2) hot temper; impatience; to be in a f., to have a fit ofimpatience; Fe. — flɔstər: U. flȯstər: Fe.; Du. — Icel. flaustr, n., careless haste, badly (hastily) performed work; No. and Icel. flaustra, vb., to work violently in a slipshod way. — The word assimilates partly to L.Sc. fluster, sb., bustle, confusion on account of hurry, and partly to Eng. fluster, sb.

floster [flɔstər, flȯstər], vb., to rush violently and confusedly along (U.: flɔstər); to get quickly through with one’s work, to f. at onyting (Du.: flȯstər). See prec. floster, sb.

flot [flɔt], sb., a level stretch of land, wide expanse; a flot o’ land, o’ corn. Nm^w.; De^w. Deriv. from *flat-; O.N. flǫt (and flata), f., flǫtr (and flati), m., a level stretch of land; cf. flet and flat(t)i, sbs.

floti [floti], sb., a small raft, ferry-boat. Sa. O.N. floti, m., that which is floating or is floated on the water; a raft; ferry-boat.

flotti [flɔti], sb., the uppermost part of the partition-wall through the house, dividing but and ben (corresponding to No. and Fær. “røgstue”: the living-room, and “glasstue”: the best room); chiefly applied to the triangular-shaped straw partition above the wooden wall. Sa. O.N. flatta, f., a mat (plaiting).

fluder [fludər], sb., a flat rock, esp. a flat skerry in the sea. Fe. Now mostly used as a place-name: de Fluder o’ Bakkigert, de F. o’ Øri (Fe^w.); de Fluders, pl. (Y^w.). Prob. an orig. “*flyðra” with dropped i-mutation. See further under flodrek², sb.

*flug [flug, flog], sb., a flounder, L.Sc. flook, fleuk. N.I.? May be derived from O.N. flóki (Sn.E.) on account of the final g. Icel. flóki, m., a small flounder.

flug¹ and fluk, vb., see flog³, fljog, vb.

flug² [flūg], vb., to hang loose, flapping = flag², vb.; de oo’ [‘wool’] is flugin on de sheep. Ai. May be an orig. *fluga, vb., — *floga; cf. O.N. flug, n., in sense of a vane, something fluttering in the wind, and No. floga, vb., to float; hover; to run about. Might also be thought to be developed through a middle-form “*fᶅūg” from O.N. fljúga, vb., to fly, although the latter ought to give a “*fløg” in Shetl.

fluid [fᶅūed] and fluin [fᶅūɩn], sb., a very small quantity or thin layer; a particle; grain; a f. o’ butter. U. fluid: Uⁿ.; fluin: U^wg. Prop. the same word as fli, sb., in the same sense (see fli), and developed from a *flý. u in flu- has arisen through dropped i-mutation; -id in fluid is prob. the suffixed def. art. in neut. [*flýit], and -in, in fluin, is the def. art. in the fem. gender [*flýin]; No. “fly” (a flake; fluff; grain) is found both as a neut. and as a fem. noun.