flakka

From colloquial Spanish flaka (“an elegant, charming woman”), derived from Spanish flaca (“skinny, slender”).

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flakka (uncountable)

1. (slang) The stimulant drug alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone or alpha-PVP.

From Old Norse flakka, from Proto-Germanic *flakkōn (“to flutter, wander, roam”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ-, which could be related to Ancient Greek πλάζω (plázō, “to turn away from”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈflahka/
• Rhymes: -ahka

flakka (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative flakkaði, supine flakkað)

1. (intransitive) to wander, to roam

   Synonyms: ráfa, eigra, reika, rangla, sveima

• flakk (“wandering, roaming”)
• flakkari (“wanderer, vagrant”)

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) “flakkon”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 144

• flakke

From Old Norse flakka.

• IPA^(key): /²flɑkːɑ/

flakka (present tense flakkar, past tense flakka, past participle flakka, passive infinitive flakkast, present participle flakkande, imperative flakka/flakk)

1. to wander about
2. to flicker (as the light of a candle)
3. to flit (move rapidly, unpredictably)

• “flakka” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.