English
flakka
Flakka comes from Spanish flaka ‘an elegant, charming woman’, and goes back to flaca ‘skinny, slender’.
- Spanishc. 1500–presentflaca‘skinny, slender’
- Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentflaka‘an elegant, charming woman’
- Englishtodayflakka
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Spanishc. 1500–presentflaca‘skinny, slender’
- Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentflaka‘an elegant, charming woman’
- Englishtodayflakka
Every English word from Spanish flaca
Today it means
noun The stimulant drug alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone or alpha-PVP.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Spanish flaca / flakka