Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy. · Having plenty of ready money. · Liable to show off expensive possessions or money. · Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.
To cause to shine briefly or intermittently. · To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently. · To be visible briefly. · To make visible briefly.
In some senses, from Middle English flasshen, a variant of flasken, flaskien (“to sprinkle, splash”), which was likely of imitative origin; in other senses probably of North Germanic origin akin to Swedish dialectal flasa (“to burn brightly, blaze”), related to flare. Compare also Icelandic flasa (“to rush, go hastily”).
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