flizzoms

Nov. 17th, 2009 07:27 am
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flizzoms - "Small fragments of very thin things, as of dry leaves or dust of tobacco; from Norwegian flus, Swedish flisa, a scale, fragment. —Hensleigh Wedgwood's Dictionary of English Etymology, 1878"


Another definition defines it as small flakes in bottled liquors, which agrees with other dialect glossaries about the 'net which describe flizzoms as the bessoms in bottles -- while others focus on the small flying particles aspect.

---L.

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