fluken.1
/fluːk/, U.S. /fluk/ 1.
a. A flatfish, esp. the common flounder, Pleuronectes Flesus.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Pleuronectiformes (flat-fish) > [noun] > family Pleuronectidae > member of genus Platichthyes (flounder)
flukea700
buttc1300
floundera1450
suanta1609
salmon flounder1815
Monterey halibut1882
a700 Epinal Gloss. 802 Platisa, flooc.
a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 94 Fage and floc and lopystran and fela swylces.
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 705 Hic pelanius, a flewke.
1480 W. Worcester Itineraries 292 Homines possunt piscare de..flokes.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxv And thou cut the lyuer [of a rotten sheep] therin wyll be lytell quykens lyke flokes.
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 106v Wry-mouthed Flooke.
1744 T. Preston in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 43 61/2 In the Sea they catch..Flukes, Trouts, &c.
1790 A. Wheeler Westmorland Dial. 28 I'll gie the a Fleak and a Pot-ful a Saur Milk.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xi. 252 I'll bid you a shilling for the fluke and the cock-padle.
b. as a type of flatness.
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the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > [noun] > object > typically
fluke?a1400
pancake1757
?a1400 Morte Arth. 1088 Flatt mowthede as a fluke.
a1605 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 111 I's fell thee like a fluike, flatlings on the flure.
1804 R. Anderson et al. Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 106 Her feet flat and braid, as big fluiks.
c. slang. = flat n.3 13.
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1804 Sporting Mag. 23 201 The unguarded flukes, whom they can inveigle to play.
2. A parasitic trematoid worm, of several species, found esp. in the livers of sheep, so called from its resemblance to a fluke or flounder.[Cf. quot. ?1523 at sense 1a.]
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Platyhelminthes > [noun] > class Trematodes > member of
fluke1668
plaicea1722
gourd-worm1756
weevil1789
trematode1859
bloodworm1872
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. v. §2. 123 Insects..whose shape doth somewhat resemble a Flounder, found..in..the liver of several of the Ruminant kind..Fluke.
1756 F. Nicholls in Philos. Trans. 1755 (Royal Soc.) 49 247 A small flat worm, resembling a sole..is found in the gall-duct, by the butchers term'd flooks.
1845 G. Budd On Dis. Liver 399 Fourteen flukes were found..in the duodenum of a Lascar.
1884 in Chambers's Jrnl. 3 May 278/2.
3. A variety of kidney potato, perhaps so called from its shape.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > potato > types of
baker1651
Irish potato1664
sprout1771
London lady1780
ox-noble1794
pink-eye1795
kidney1796
Suriname1796
round1800
yam potato1801
bluenose1803
yam1805
bead-potato1808
Murphy1811
lumper1840
blue1845
salmon1845
merino1846
regent1846
pink1850
redskin potato1851
fluke1868
snowflake1882
magnum1889
ware1894
snowdrop1900
King Edward1902
Majestic1917
red1926
fingerling1930
Pentland1959
chipper1961
Maris Peer1963
Maris Piper1963
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > potato > types of potato
potato1629
Rough Red1771
sprout1771
London lady1780
russet1780
ox-noble1794
pink-eye1795
kidney1796
Suriname1796
silver-skin1797
yam potato1801
bluenose1803
yam1805
bead-potato1808
lumper1840
blue1845
merino1846
regent1846
pink1850
redskin potato1851
fluke1868
mangel-wurzel potato1875
snowflake1882
snowdrop1900
pomato1905
Idaho1911
Majestic1917
red1926
Pentland1959
1868 Notes & Queries 4th Ser. I. 100.
1874 E. H. Ruddock Text-bk. Mod. Med. (1893) 38 The best sorts [of potatoes] are..the Forty-fold, and the Fluke.
1884 in R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester
Compounds
C1. General attributive. (In sense 2.)
fluke-disease n.
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1884 Chambers's Jrnl. 3 May 278/1 This disease—Liver-fluke, Fluke Disease, Liver-rot, as it is variously termed.
fluke-worm n.
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1794–6 E. Darwin Zoonomia (1801) IV. 250 When the fleuk-worm is preying on the substance of their livers.
1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) III. 395 Fluke-worms are oftentimes very numerous in the viscera of quadrupeds.
C2. Instrumental. (In sense 2.)
fluke-infested adj.
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1884 Chambers's Jrnl. 3 May 278/2 The bodies of fluke-infested sheep.
C3. Similative. (In sense 1.)
fluke-mouthed adj.
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?a1400 Morte Arth. 2780 Thow wenes for to flay us, ffloke-mouthed schrewe.
C4.
fluke-rake n. a rake with triangular prongs used for taking flukes.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > other fishing equipment > [noun] > other fishing devices
raw1533
taining1533
kepper1558
rack1735
fluke-rake1766
runner1766
jig1846
bush1880
fish-gorge1883
gorge1883
1766 R. Brookes Art of Angling (new ed.) 85 In the hot Months, there are great Quantities caught with the Fluke-Rake.
fluke-wort n. (see quot. 1861).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > marsh pennywort
sheep-killing penny-grass?1523
wood-nep1526
pennywort1578
sheep-killing pennygrass1578
fluke-wort1597
penny-rot1597
sheep's bane1597
white rot1597
fairies' table1878
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 424 In Northfolke it [sc. Water Pennywoort] is called Flowkwoort.
1861 P. Lankester Wild Flowers 61 Marsh Pennywort..is also known as..Fluke-wort, and Sheep's bane. These..names it has obtained on account of its being supposed to produce the rot..in animals that feed upon it.
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fluken.2
/fluːk/, U.S. /fluk/ 1.
a. One of ‘the broad triangular plates of iron on each arm of the anchor, inside the bills or extreme points, which, having entered the ground, hold the ship’ (Admiral Smyth).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > anchor > fluke
fluke1561
grasp1561
hook1627
fluec1860
1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation Epistle sig. A iiiv The Thirreni founde the vse of the anker of one graspe or flooke.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxvii. xxx. 962 Her owne anker, which by one of the floukes tooke fast hold.
1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas 115 All Hands haul'd..which weigh'd the Grapenel, but streighten'd one of the Flukes.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 2 Among the waste and lumber of the shore,..Anchors of rusty fluke.
b. The barbed head of a lance, arrow, etc. Cf. 1629 for fluked adj.1 at Derivatives. Also U.S. ‘one of the barbs of a harpoon or toggle-iron; a flue’ ( Cent. Dict.).
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [noun] > head of arrow > barbed head
angle-head1488
hook1488
swallowtail1545
flukea1600
fork1608
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > lance > head or point of lance > barbed or with spreading points
coronalc1325
morne1494
cronet1519
flukea1600
crownaclec1650
a1600 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems xxviii. 58 And eviry shaft..To haif als mony heeds, And evirie head als mony huikis, And evirie huik als mony fluiks.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage v. xvii. 544 A great launce couered with gold and the fluke set with stones.
1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. v. 33 The one [arrow] with long flukes or barbs.
c. A name for various instruments resembling the preceding in shape: see quots.
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1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua Gloss. Fluke, a lancet used for letting blood from horses.
1849 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. ii. 189/1 Fluke, in mining, the head of a charger; an instrument used for cleansing the hole previous to blasting.
1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Supp. Fleukk, the web of the plough sock.
2. plural. ‘The two parts which constitute the large triangular tail of the whale’ (Adm. Smyth). to turn or peak the flukes: of a whale, to go under (see quot. 1839); hence transferred (Nautical slang) to go to bed, ‘turn in’.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [noun] > large member of (whale) > parts of > parts of tail
flukes1726
small1726
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > go to bed or retire to rest [verb (intransitive)]
to go to (one's) resteOE
to take (one's) restc1175
to go to bedc1275
to lie downc1275
reposec1485
down-lie1505
bed1635
to turn in1695
retire1696
lay1768
to go to roost1829
to turn or peak the flukes1851
kip1889
doss1896
to hit the hay1912
to hit the deck1918
to go down1922
to bunk down1940
to hit the sack1943
to sack out1946
to sack down1956
1726 P. Dudley in Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 256 While young, and carried by the Dam on the Flukes of their Tails.
1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale 44 The flukes are then lifted high into the air, and the animal..descends perpendicularly..this act..is called by whalers ‘peaking the flukes’.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick iii. 21 It's getting dreadful late, you had better be turning flukes—it's a nice bed.
1860 G. Hartwig tr. Sea & its Living Wonders vi. 79 The tail-fin, or ‘flukes’.
Compounds
General attributive.
fluke plough n. (also light fluke plough)
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > other types of plough
ox-plough?1523
double plough1653
chip plough1742
Rotherham plough1743
fluke plough1775
breaking plough1781
miner1794
snap-plough1798
turf-cutter1819
scooter plough1820
bull-tongue1831
prairie plough1831
split-plough1840
prairie breaker1857
straddle-plough1875
tickle-plough1875
chill-plough1886
stump-jump1896
swamp plough1930
prairie buster1943
1775 G. Washington Writings (1889) II. 461 Get 2 light fluke Plows.
fluke-chain n. (also fluke-rope) a chain or rope which is passed round the flukes of a whale to secure it when caught.
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society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > whaling equipment > [noun] > chain securing tail
fluke-chain1851
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxxxi. 399 The whale was..secured there by the stiffest fluke-chains.
Derivatives
fluked adj.1 having flukes.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > [adjective] > barbed
fluked1629
tanged1888
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [adjective] > having specific head
coronalleda1450
triple-headed1581
piled?1611
fluked1629
tridental1648
brazen-headed1832
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [adjective] > barbed
forked1549
fluked1629
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [adjective] > attributes of anchor
unstocked1388
fluky1718
fluked1831
stockless1886
1629 Z. Boyd Last Battell Soule I. 14 Death..with its sting, like a flooked Dart, for to pierce thorow the heart of men.
1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 96 Three or four fluked anchors are to be constructed.
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fluken.3
/fluːk/, U.S. /fluk/ colloquial.
In Billiards, A successful stroke made by accident or chance. Hence gen. a lucky stroke, an unexpected success; a piece of good luck, esp. in phrase by a fluke. Also attributive. a fluke of wind: a chance breeze.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [noun] > success by luck
fluke1857
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > actions or types of play > type of stroke
hazard1674
carambole1775
carom1779
cannon1802
screw1825
sidestroke1834
following stroke1837
cannonade1844
five-stroke1847
follow1850
scratch1850
fluke1857
jenny1857
bank shot1859
angle shot1860
draw shot1860
six-stroke1861
run-through1862
spot1868
quill1869
dead-stroke1873
loser1873
push1873
push stroke1873
stab1873
stab screw1873
draw1881
force1881
plant1884
anchor cannon1893
massé1901
angle1902
cradle-cannon1907
pot1907
jump shot1909
carry-along1913
snooker1924
1857 Notes & Queries 2nd Ser. 4 208/1 In playing at billiards..Another term is, ‘He made a flook (or fluke)’.
1861 H. Kingsley Ravenshoe v That was rather a fluke, was it not?
1868 E. Yates Rock Ahead I. i. vi. 234 The most unexpected fluke at trente et quarante.
1882 A. Bain James Mill 194 The transfer of power has gone on..by flukes and leaps in the dark.
1889 H. F. Wood Englishman Rue Caïn x Whose run~away horse he had stopped..by the merest fluke.
1906 ‘Q’ Mayor of Troy x. 139 The mass huddled together, rubbing flanks, swaying this way and that in the pressure of panic as corn is swayed by flukes of summer wind.
1909 Daily Chron. 12 Oct. 8/1 It was no fluke victory.
1955 Times 3 Aug. 4/5 Because of the calms and flukes of wind yesterday numbers of vessels retired from their respective events.
Derivatives
ˈflukeless adj. without a fluke.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [adjective] > pure or flawless
lutter971
unwemmedc1000
fair?c1225
upright?c1225
purec1300
without lackc1300
completec1380
defaultlessa1425
flush?1550
undefective1599
impeccable1620
indefectivea1641
defectless1651
virginala1659
flawless1659
unflawed1665
indefectuous1685
unblighted1785
immaculate1791
indefectible1833
shadeless1894
flukeless1895
intacta1941
pedicured1988
1895 Westm. Gaz. 5 Jan. 7/2 It was a faultless, flukeless performance on a standard table.
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fluken.4
/fluːk/, U.S. /fluk/ dialect.
(See quots.)
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1691 J. Ray North Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words 28 Flukes, Chesh. Locks of Hair.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Fluke, waste cotton. Lanc.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
flukev.1
/fluːk/, U.S. /fluk/ 1.
a. intransitive. Of a whale: To use the flukes, to ‘peak the flukes’: see fluke n.2 2.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [verb (intransitive)] > miscellaneous actions of whale
calvec1000
spout1683
blow1726
peak1839
sound1839
fluke1840
mill1840
breach1843
white-water1856
round1881
1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. 6 (note) There she blow-o-s! Th-e-r-e again! Flukes!
1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 206 Where the scared whale flukes in flame!
b. transferred in phrase (to go) fluking or all (-a-) fluking (see quot. 1867).
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > avail oneself of a wind [verb (intransitive)] > sail with wind abaft the beam
goOE
large1582
to go (sail, etc.) large1615
lask1622
(to go) fluking1840
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxviii. 306 We arrived on the following day, having gone ‘all fluking’.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. at Flukes From the power of these [flukes of a whale] the phrase obtained among whalers of fluking or all-a-fluking, when running with a fresh free wind.
2. transitive. In Whaling.
Categories »
a. To disable the flukes of (a whale) by spading.
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b. To fasten (a whale) by means of a chain or rope. ( Cent. Dict.)
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flukev.2
/fluːk/, U.S. /fluk/ 1. trans. Billiards: To hit or pocket (a ball) by a fluke; to make (a stroke) by a fluke.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [verb (transitive)] > play (the ball) in specific way
hazard1674
string1680
miss1746
pocket1756
hole1803
spot1844
nurse1850
draw1860
pot1860
hold1869
dribble1873
fluke1881
scratch1909
1881 Times 14 Jan. 8/2 Bennett..tried for a cannon, but fluked the white, and..ran out the winner by 90 points.
1888 Sportsm. 20 Dec. 4/4 Fortune once more assisted Mitchell, who, in trying to make a red loser, fluked a cannon.
2. transferred. To get (in) or obtain by a fluke. Also intransitive.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > make a success of [verb (transitive)] > get in or obtain by luck
fluke1885
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > achieve success (of persons) > succeed by luck
fluke1885
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 June 2 On the chance of crowding or fluking in one [picture] he will send the whole eight.
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 May 7/3 It is very questionable whether the artist is really any better off for fluking £500 or £1000 now and again for a picture which is worth £50.
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Aug. 1/3 He wanted to fluke a last success.
1897 N. Gould Seeing him Through xiii Even if he managed to fluke home in this trial.
1904 Daily Chron. 5 May 7/2 Even if Mr. P. F. Warner's XI. were fluked out of the game.
1929 Star 21 Aug. 16/2 Marvellous handicap horses that may fluke the City and Suburban.
Derivatives
ˈfluking n.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [noun] > success by luck > obtainment by fluke
fluking1893
1893 G. D. Leslie Lett. to Marco xxi. 142 There is a lot of fluking in the art..when we once begin to try and make a good picture it is all up with it.
ˈfluking adj. characterized by a fluke or flukes.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [adjective] > type of stroke
fluking1865
massé1873
carry-along1913
miscued1962
1865 Daily Tel. 21 Aug. 4 The sensation which was created last year by the Miner's fluking victory over Blair Athol.
1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal III. viii. 155 She would play that fluking game which she most affected at billiards.
ˈflukist n. one who succeeds rather by chance than by skill.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [noun] > one who or that which is successful > one who > by luck rather than skill
flukist1881
1881 Society 23 July 24/1 Time..will show whether Mr. Beck is a lucky flukist or a really good shot.
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n.31857n.41691v.11840v.21865- to poll and pill
- to poop a sea
- to pop
- to pop a person's cherry
- to pop a wheelie
- to pop corn
- to pop in and out
- to pop into a person's head
- to pop into a person's mind
- to pop off
- to pop off the hooks
- to pop one's cherry
- to pop one's clogs
- to pop one's cork
- to pop one's nuts
- to pop out the question
- to pop the clutch
- to pop the question
- to pop up
- to pore one's eyes out
- to pork out
- to pork up
- to port
- to port arms
- to port the helm