flu

• 'flu (dated)
• floo (dated)

Clipping of influenza

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fluː/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /flʉː/

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• Rhymes: -uː, -ʉː
• Homophones: flew, flue

flu (usually uncountable, plural flus)

1. Influenza.

   catch flu

   get over the flu

   transmit flu

2. (informal) Stomach flu.

• Can be used with or without the definite article: I have the flu or I have flu

• (influenza): grippe, grip

• catarrh

• -ful, ULF

From English flu (“influenza”).

• IPA^(key): /fly/

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flu m (uncountable)

1. (Quebec) diarrhea

• IPA^(key): /flʉː/

Related to the verb fly (“to fly”). The verb is derived from the noun.

flu n (definite singular fluet, indefinite plural flu, definite plural flua)

1. (countable and uncountable, fishing) bait that is strewn out over the surface to attract fish

flu (present tense flur, past tense fludde, past participle fludd/flutt, passive infinitive fluast, present participle fluande, imperative flu)

1. (intransitive) to fish using such a technique

• flua, flue

From Old Norse flúð.

• flud (non-standard since 1917)

flu f (definite singular flua, indefinite plural fluer, definite plural fluene)

1. a bank or skerry which is underwater at high tide

• flod
• flyte

• “flu” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• ful, Ulf

Borrowed from French flou.

• IPA^(key): /fʎu/

flu

1. fuzzy
2. (photography) blurred, out of focus