flemme

East Central German

Noun

flemme

1. (Erzgebirgisch) to cry, to weep

Related terms

• Flemm

Further reading

• Hendrik Heidler (11 June 2020), Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎ (in German), 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 43

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian flemma, from Latin phlegma (“phlegm”), one of the four bodily humours, thought to cause a sluggish and unemotional nature. First attested in the late 1700s.

Doublet of flegme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flɛm/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

flemme f (countable and uncountable, plural flemmes)

1. (informal) laziness

   Synonym: paresse

   J'ai la flemme de le faire. ― I can't be bothered to do it.

2. (obsolete) lazy person

   Synonym: paresseux

   • 1917, Maurice Genevoix, Nuits de guerre [Nights of War], page 34:

     Allons, quoi ! grande flemme lève-toi […]

     Let's go, huh! You big sloth, get up […]

Derived terms

• flémingite
• flemmard
• flemmasser
• flemmer
• lofeu
• tirer sa flemme

Further reading

• “flemme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

flemme f

1. plural of flemma

Further reading

• “flemme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.