'flu
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Dated form of flu. UK, alt-of, dated, uncountable
"Perhaps it was merely ’flu delirium that made me think of the same fellow as the hero of the next song, that great maestropiece “Music, maestro, please”—the sort of thing, perhaps, that in old music-hall days would have been allotted to that terrible person the “descriptive vocalist.”"
Example
More examples"Perhaps it was merely ’flu delirium that made me think of the same fellow as the hero of the next song, that great maestropiece “Music, maestro, please”—the sort of thing, perhaps, that in old music-hall days would have been allotted to that terrible person the “descriptive vocalist.”"
Etymology
A clipping of influenza.
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