{"id":10486,"date":"2014-09-30T10:19:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T10:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=10486"},"modified":"2014-09-30T10:19:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T10:19:28","slug":"flierefluiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=10486","title":{"rendered":"Flierefluiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I learnt an interesting word in Dutch &#8211; <strong>flierefluiter<\/strong> &#8211; which a Dutch friend described as being a &#8220;butterfly type of person&#8221;. That is, someone who rarely sticks to or finishes anything.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vandale.nl\/opzoeken?pattern=flierefluiter&#038;lang=nn#.VCqBmGddUig\">vanDale dictionary<\/a> <em>flierefluiter<\/em> is a <em>nietsnut<\/em> (layabout or someone fit for nothing).<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/was.dictionarist.com\/flierefluiter\">Dictionarist<\/a> a <em>flierefluiter<\/em> is a &#8216;loafer, idler, dawdler, lazy person; low slip-on shoe&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Are there interesting words for this type of person in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I learnt an interesting word in Dutch &#8211; flierefluiter &#8211; which a Dutch friend described as being a &#8220;butterfly type of person&#8221;. That is, someone who rarely sticks to or finishes anything. According to the vanDale dictionary flierefluiter is a nietsnut (layabout or someone fit for nothing). According to Dictionarist a flierefluiter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dutch","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}