flikker

From Dutch flikkeren.

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flikker (present flikker, present participle flikkerende, past participle geflikker)

1. to flash, to flicker

Possibly related to flikken (“to do, pull off”), flikkeren (“to flicker”), or frik (“narrow-minded schoolteacher”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɪ.kər/

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• Hyphenation: flik‧ker
• Rhymes: -ɪkər

flikker m (plural flikkers, diminutive flikkertje n)

1. A mender, fixer, someone who mends or fixes
2. A jump while clicking the heels
3. A human body, especially when in the nude
4. (Netherlands) A bit

   Maakt me geen flikker uit.

   I don’t care a bit.

5. (slang, contemptuous, derogatory) A homosexual male; a queer.

• (mender): fikser, reparateur
• (human body): lijf
• (bit): moer, zier
• (homosexual): homo, janet

• flikkerbeweging
• opflikkeren (to sod off)
• in z'n flikker (in the bare)
• op z'n flikker geven (to give a beating)

flikker

1. first-person singular present indicative of flikkeren
2. imperative of flikkeren

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “flikker1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute