noun
Meaning 1
A whirring sound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England
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Standard Lemma guide
flusk
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Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
Meaning 2
A flutter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England
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noun
Meaning 3
A quarrel, contention, skirmish, fight.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England
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verb
Meaning 4
To make a whirring or fluttering sound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, intransitive
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verb
Meaning 5
To fly at; ruffle up the feathers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, intransitive
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verb
Meaning 6
To quarrel.
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Usage: Northern-England, intransitive
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verb
Meaning 7
To startle or confuse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, transitive
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History
Etymology
Uncertain. Likely from Middle English *flusken, a variant of flusshen (“to move rapidly, dart”), the same origin as flush. Perhaps from Old Norse *flugsa (“to flap, flutter”), from Proto-Germanic *flugisōną (“to flutter”); compare Norwegian Nynorsk flugsa (“to flutter”), Norwegian Bokmål flugse (“to flutter”). Compare also Norwegian flogsa, flogse (“to run around, frolic, flirt”), Faroese flogsa (“to gad about, solicit”).