An archaic or dialectal word meaning to splash or move through water noisily.
From Middle English or possibly Scandinavian origin; related to Old Norse words for splashing; mostly obsolete in modern English except in regional dialects.
This wonderfully onomatopoetic word captures the exact sound of someone wading through mud or shallow water—'flouse'—which is why it stuck around in British regional speech even though formal English abandoned it.
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