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flew
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flu?/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /flju?/
- Rhymes: -u?
- Homophones: flu, flue
Etymology 1
Unknown.
Noun
flew (plural flews)
- (chiefly plural) The thick, dangling upper lip of certain breeds of dog, or the canine equivalent of the upper lip.
- The raging hound's flews were twisted upwards in an angry snarl.
Related terms
- flewed
Etymology 2
From Middle English flew, flow, from Old English fl?ag, flug-, from Proto-Germanic *flaug, *flug-, past tense forms of Proto-Germanic *fleugan? (“to fly”). Compare Saterland Frisian flooch (“flew”), West Frisian fleach (“flew”), Dutch vloog (“flew”), German flog (“flew”), Danish fløj (“flew”), Swedish flög (“flew”), Icelandic flaug (“flew”).
Verb
flew
- simple past tense of fly
Etymology 3
Alternative forms
- flue
Adjective
flew (comparative more flew, superlative most flew)
- (Britain, dialect) shallow; flat
References
Anagrams
- fewl
Welsh
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /?vle?u?/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /?vl?u?/
Noun
flew
- Soft mutation of blew.
Mutation
flew From the web:
- what flew over the cuckoo's nest
- what flew across the sky tonight
- what flew out of pandora's box
- what flew past earth
- what flew over the community at the beginning of the story
- what flew by earth
- what flew by earth last night
alew
English
Etymology
Imitative. Compare halloo.
Noun
alew (plural alews)
- (obsolete, rare) A cry of despair.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.6:
- Yet did she not lament with loude alew, / As women wont, but with deepe sighes and singults few.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.6:
Anagrams
- e-law, lawe, wale, weal
Gothic
Romanization
alew
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