flugs

Meaning

quickly

Frequency

35k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/fluːks/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German vluges, adverbial genitive from vluc, whence modern Flug (“flight, flying”). Compare Dutch vlug (“quickly”), which is a related, though not identical word, and fluks, which originates in Middle Dutch but is in its modern form influenced by German.

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