flemme

East Central German

Noun

flemme

  1. (Erzgebirgisch) to cry, to weep

Further reading

  • 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, 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 43:

French

Etymology

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.

Doublet of flegme.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /flɛm/
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Noun

flemme f (countable and uncountable, plural flemmes)

  1. (informal) laziness
    Synonym: paresse
    J’ai la flemme de le faire.I can't be bothered to do it.
  2. (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

  • flémingite
  • flemmard
  • flemmasser
  • flemmer
  • lofeu
  • tirer sa flemme

Further reading

Italian

Noun

flemme f

  1. plural of flemma

Further reading

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