Lexicographical Neighbors of Flaff
Literary usage of Flaff
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"To flaff, oa To fan, in allusion to the raising of the wind by flapping, ...
The act of flapping, SV flaff, c. 2. A flake of whatever kind, any very light ..."
2. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"To flaff, va To fan ; in allusion to raising wind by flapping, ... To flaff, t?.
n. To fly off; logo off as gunpowder with a ..."
3. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1802)
"When the churn flaff thus fitted up is ... the churn flafF, and immediately force
it down again. Even if this method contributed only to ..."
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