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flu, 'flu, n. colloq.|fluː|
Also 9 flue.
Short for influenza.
1839Southey Lett. (1856) IV. 574, I have had a pretty fair share of the Flue. 1893Mod. Let., I've a bad attack of the flu. 1911Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 239/2 We naturally ask ourselves what season—the ‘flu’ season, or was it the festive season? 1935G. Barker Janus 151 She's in bed; she's got the 'flu. 1951Auden Nones (1952) 28 Little birds with scarlet legs, Sitting on their speckled eggs, Eye each flu-infected city. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Nov. p. ii/3 When the place is snowbound and the staff laid low with flu, the girls take over.
▸ 'flu-like adj.
1941Fitchburg (Mass.) Sentinel 11 Jan. 3/5 The prevalence of a *flu-like illness throughout the city..has cut deeply in school attendance. 1997New Scientist 26 Apr. 13/4 Hantaviruses, which at first cause flu-like symptoms but can eventually kill by filling the sufferer's lungs with fluid, are usually spread by rodents. |