fluquice
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Macanese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fluquice
- good luck at gambling
- a good move made by mere chance, stroke of luck
- Qui fluquice!
- What good luck!
Usage notes[edit]
- The Portuguese suffix -ice is largely not productive in Macanese other than this term and possibly imposturice (“vanity; ostentation”).
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “fluquice”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 445
- https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#f