Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To make a whirring or fluttering sound. · To fly at; ruffle up the feathers. · To quarrel. · To startle or confuse.
A whirring sound. · A flutter. · A quarrel, contention, skirmish, fight.
Uncertain. Likely from Middle English *flusken, a variant of flusshen (“to move rapidly, dart”), the same origin as flush. Perhaps from Old Norse *flugsa (“to flap, flutter”), from Proto-Germanic *flugisōną (“to flutter”); compare Norwegian Nynorsk flugsa (“to flutter”), Norwegian Bokmål flugse (“to flutter”). Compare also Norwegian flogsa, flogse (“to run around, frolic, flirt”), Faroese flogsa (“to gad about, solicit”).
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