flousefloushv.
/flaʊs//flaʊʃ/ dialect.
1. To splash. transitive and intransitive.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (intransitive)]
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (transitive)]
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1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 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.
1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms Floush, to plash and beat water about with violence as boys frequently do when bathing.
1885 Notes & Queries 26 Sept. 6th Ser. XII. 249.
2. intransitive. To come with a heavy splash.
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1862 C. Kingsley Water-babies iii, in Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 436/1 Out floushed a huge old brown trout.
3. The verb stem used adverbially.
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1819 T. Moore Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress (ed. 3) 13 Old Georgy went floush, and his backers look'd shy.
Derivatives
ˈflousing adj.
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1880 R. Jefferies Greene Ferne Farm 64 The flousing splash of the mill-race.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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