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Flemish

//ˈflɛmɪʃ// adj, name, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to Flanders, either as the historical county of Flanders (the current provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders in Belgium, Zeelandic Flanders in the Netherlands and French Flanders); or as the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium.

    "But Wallonian legislators are blocking the changes, fearing that their power is eroding, that the Flemish are doing some legal ethnic cleansing and that a divided Belgium will end the subsidies that flow south from richer Flanders."

  2. 2
    Of or relating to the Belgian standard variety of the Dutch language.
  3. 3
    Of or relating to West Flemish, East Flemish and/or French Flemish dialects of Dutch.
Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to Flanders or its people or language or culture wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Standard Dutch as it is spoken in Flanders.
  2. 2
    West Flemish, East Flemish and/or French Flemish dialects of Dutch.
Noun
  1. 1
    Ellipsis of Flemish coil (“a rope that has been arranged into a neat, flat spiral coil”). abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

    "He really knew more of the ropes than half the mess did, though he had made no show; he could have managed to stow the mizen-royal in a squall by himself, if such had been now proper in his position; there were even two or three out-of-the-way knots, splices, and flemishes—practised by veteran A.B.'s alone, revealed to few, and only to be acquired with perfection in the studious solitude of the merchant service, with which Dick Diamond could be seen in sequestered corners to perplex raw hands of the waist or after-guard, he having singular instincts for that art—but some of which Harry could have explained in passing by."

  2. 2
    one of two official languages of Belgium; closely related to Dutch wordnet
  3. 3
    an ethnic group speaking Flemish and living in northern and western Belgium wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    Often followed by down: to arrange (a rope) into a neat, flat spiral coil. transitive

    "In about twenty minutes, after the messenger had been stowed away, the cables coiled in the tiers, and the ropes flemished down on deck, the captain made his appearance, and directed the first-lieutenant to send aft the newly impressed men."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English flemmysshe, from Old English flēmisc, from Old Frisian flāmisk, derived from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz (“flowing, current water”) and *-iskaz. Equivalent to English fleam + -ish. More at Flanders.

Etymology 2

From Middle English flemmysshe, from Old English flēmisc, from Old Frisian flāmisk, derived from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz (“flowing, current water”) and *-iskaz. Equivalent to English fleam + -ish. More at Flanders.

Etymology 3

The noun is an ellipsis of Flemish coil, so called because the technique of coiling rope in this manner began with sailors from Flanders. The verb is from Flemish (“of or relating to Flanders”, adjective), from Flemish coil.

Etymology 4

The noun is an ellipsis of Flemish coil, so called because the technique of coiling rope in this manner began with sailors from Flanders. The verb is from Flemish (“of or relating to Flanders”, adjective), from Flemish coil.

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