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flad

Pronunciation: [ˈflæˀð]

“flad” is a Danish word. Its 7 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. flat
  2. crestfallen
  3. poor, feeble, insipid
  4. broke (lacking money)
  5. deadbeat (exhausted)
  6. dead, flat (of a battery: unable to generate power)
  7. a slap to the face

Etymology

From Old Norse flatr, from Proto-Germanic *flataz, cognate with English flat. The Germanic adjective goes back to Proto-Indo-European *plat- (“flat”), cf. Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús) (whence, via Latin, Danish plat and plads).

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