| 释义 |
flouse, floush, v. dial.|flaʊs, flaʊʃ|
[? onomatopœic; cf. flush v.2]
1. To splash. trans. and intr.
1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 21 I haue seene it..when as this kinde of Mettall being molten in the pit, and but a sponefull of water being cast into, it hath floushed and leapt vp to the top of the house. 1838Holloway Dict. Provinc., Floush, to plash and beat water about with violence as boys frequently do when bathing. 1885N. & Q. 26 Sept. Ser. vi. XII. 249.
2. intr. To come with a heavy splash.
1863Kingsley Water-bab. 95 Out floushed a huge, old brown trout.
3. The verb stem used adverbially.
1819Moore Tom Crib's Mem. (ed. 3) 13 Old Georgy went floush, and his backers look'd shy.
Hence ˈflousing ppl. a.
1880Jefferies Gr. Ferne F. 64 The flousing splash of the mill-race. |