Etymograph

English

flashcrowd

From flash + crowd.

A compound of flash + crowd

Middle English flasshen ‘to splash’

English flash

Proto-Germanic *krūdaną ‘to crowd, press’

Proto-West Germanic *krūdan

Old English crūdan ‘to press (forward)’

Middle English crouden ‘to cram; to drive into a confined space’

English crowd

Today it means

noun The large number of people brought by the sudden increase in popularity of an Internet site or resource due to an event or link from another site.

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