flemme
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East Central German[edit]
Noun[edit]
flemme
- (Erzgebirgisch) to cry, to weep
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch[1], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 43:
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Italian flemma, from Latin phlegma (“phlegm”), one of the four bodily humours, thought to cause a sluggish and unemotional nature. First attested in the late 1700s.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
flemme f (countable and uncountable, plural flemmes)
- (informal) laziness
- Synonym: paresse
- J’ai la flemme de le faire. ― I can't be bothered to do it.
- (obsolete) lazy person
- Synonym: paresseux
- 1917, Maurice Genevois, Nuits de guerre [Nights of War], page 34:
- Allons, quoi ! grande flemme lève-toi […]
- Let's go, huh! You big sloth, get up […]
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “flemme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian[edit]
Noun[edit]
flemme f
Further reading[edit]
- “flemme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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