From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
From [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [flăsh'ē] , [en]
- [en]
*** Adjective
[er]
1. Showy ; visually impressive , attention-getting, or appealing .
2. [en] Marked by frequent variations in water amount [compare [en]] .
3. * {{ quote-book | en | date=2014-05-08 | author=S. M. Haslam | title=River Plants of Western Europe | publisher=Cambridge University Press | isbn=9781107634671 | page=24
|text=Flow criteria were used for classification [...] The criteria chosen
were [...] (4) the rate of change of flow with time (logged serial correlation
coefficients are 0.2 in FLASHY rivers, but up to 0.98 in stable ones); and (5)
the velocity associated with average daily flows (this varies from 1.03 m/s in
FLASHY rivers to 0.08 m/s in lowland ones).}}
1. [en] Flashing ; producing flashes.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1826 | author=Benjamin Apthorp Gould | title=The Works of Vergil: Translated into English Prose
|passage=[...] the accustomed warmth pierced his marrow, and ran thrilling
through his shaken bones; just as when at times, with forked thunder burst, a
chinky stream of fire in FLASHY lightning shoots athwart the skies.}}
1. [en] Drunk ; tipsy .
2. * [en]
**** Synonyms
- [visually impressive] See also Thesaurus:gaudy
- [producing flashes] [en] , [en]
- [drunk] See also Thesaurus:drunk
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|flashily |flashiness |glimflashy |unflashy }}
**** Translations
[showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Irish: [ga]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] , [mk] , [mk] , [mk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Persian: [fa]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scots: [sco]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
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*** Anagrams
- [en]