Lexicographical Neighbors of Flaffer
Literary usage of Flaffer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. THROUGH THE MILL THE LIFE OF A MILL BOY by Frederic Kenyon Brown (1911)
"After the tune, and while Miss flaffer had left the room to get her notebook,
... I listened, and heard Miss flaffer rummaging among some books, ..."
2. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop (1892)
"... the aw becoming a very long a. FLAA, turf for fuel. Compare FLAG. FLACKER, to
flutter, to vibrate like the wings of a bird. Compare flaffer. ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"To flaffer, vn To flutter, SB Or lav'rocks ... Mutie-Bdtt o/Perth, Tamu't Poem», p.
89. flaffer, *. The act of fluttering, ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"Anal. 1809, p. 132. FLACKY. Hanging loosely. East. flaffer. Same as Placier, qv "
A thousand fluffing flags," ..."
5. A Particular History of the Five Years French and Indian War in New England by Samuel Gardner Drake, William Shirley (1870)
"I thought we might very properly take up the Lamentation of Jeremiah, Lam. 1, 18.
' The Lord is * flaffer is probably the name in- J ..."
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