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9201 Etymology dictionary, p. flunky (n.).2
… servants running alongside coaches; compare footman ). Sense of "flatterer, toady" first recorded 1855. "Recent in literature, but prob. much older in colloquial …
9202 Etymology dictionary, p. fluor (n.).2
… , stream, run, melt" (see fluent ). Said to be from a translation of the German miners' name, flusse. Since 1771 applied to minerals containing fluorine, especially …
9203 Etymology dictionary, p. flush (adj.).2
… river running full, hence level with its banks. Meaning "even, level" is from 1620s, originally of ship's decks. In general use by 1791; in typography, 1900; in pugilism …
9204 Etymology dictionary, p. flush (n.).4
… "a run" of cards. The form in English probably was influenced by flush (v.1).
9205 Etymology dictionary, p. fluvial (adj.).2
"pertaining to a river," late 14c., from Latin fluvialis "of a river," from fluvius "a river, stream, running water," related to fluere "to flow" (see fluent ).
9206 Etymology dictionary, p. fly (v.2).2
"run away," Old English fleon, flion "fly from, avoid, escape;" essentially a variant spelling of flee (q.v.). In Old English, this verb and fleogan "soar through the air …
9207 Etymology dictionary, p. foil (v.1).2
… by running over it" (more commonly defoilen ), irregularly from Old French foler, fuler "trample on, injure, maim; ill-treat, deceive, get the better of" (13c., Modern …
9208 Etymology dictionary, p. footman (n.).4
The non-jogging "man-in-waiting" sense is attested from c. 1700, though the running footmen still were in service mid-18c. Related: Footmanship .
9209 Etymology dictionary, p. foot-race (n.).2
"race run between persons on foot," 1660s, from foot (n.) + race (n.1).
9210 Etymology dictionary, p. fountain (n.).2
… ) "to run, flow" (source also of Sanskrit dhanayati, Old Persian danuvatiy "flows, runs").
9211 Etymology dictionary, p. front-runner (n.).2
also frontrunner, of political candidates, 1908, American English, a metaphor from horse racing (where it is used by 1901 of a horse that runs best while in the lead).
9212 Etymology dictionary, p. fugitive (adj.).2
… flight, run away; become a fugitive, leave the country, go into exile; pass quickly; vanish, disappear, perish; avoid, shun; escape the notice of, be unknown to," from …
9213 Etymology dictionary, p. fugue (n.).2
… "a running away, act of fleeing," from fugere "to flee" (see fugitive (adj.)). Current English spelling (1660s) is from the French version of the Italian word.
9214 Etymology dictionary, p. gallop (v.).2
… or run by leaps," early 15c., from Old French galoper "to gallop" (12c.), central Old French form of Old North French waloper, probably from Frankish *wala hlaupan "to …
9215 Etymology dictionary, p. galvanism (n.).2
"electricity produced by chemical action," 1797, from French galvanisme or Italian galvanismo, from Luigi Galvani (1737-1798), professor of anatomy at Bologna, who discovered it c. 1792 while running currents through the legs of dead frogs.
9216 Etymology dictionary, p. gantlet (n.).2
… offender runs between rows of men who beat him in passing," 1640s, gantlope, gantelope, from Swedish gatlopp "passageway," from Old Swedish gata "lane" (see gate …
9217 Etymology dictionary, p. gas-house (n.).2
also gashouse, 1880 as a power-generating station, from gas (n.1) + house (n.). By 1926, emblematic of a run-down district of a U.S. city, a typical abode of criminals and gangsters.
9218 Etymology dictionary, p. gate (n.).2
… who run railway gates. Finnish katu, Lettish gatua "street" are Germanic loan-words.
9219 Etymology dictionary, p. gauntlet (n.2).2
military punishment in which offender runs between rows of men who beat him in passing; see gantlet .
9220 Etymology dictionary, p. get (v.).5
… free, run wild" is from 1892, from horsemanship. To get on (someone's) nerves is attested by 1970.