flouze
French
Alternative forms
- flouse
- flousse
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic فُلُوس (fulūs), from Aramaic פילס / ܦܠܣ / פולסא / ܦܘܠܣܐ (פילס / ܦܠܣ / פולסא / ܦܘܠܣܐ /fuləsā, filas/), from Ancient Greek φόλλις (phóllis), from Latin follis. Doublet of fou.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fluz/
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Noun
flouze m (plural flouzes)
- (slang) dough (money)
- 2011, Floréal Plana, Nubia, histoires d'amour, Société des Écrivains (publ.), page 35.
- Je suis dans la merde la plus complète. Plus de boulot, plus de flouze, la tête me tourne, tout m’emmerde.
- I'm in deep shit. No more job, no more dough, my head is spinning, everything is pissing me off.
- 2011, Floréal Plana, Nubia, histoires d'amour, Société des Écrivains (publ.), page 35.
Further reading
- “flouze”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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