Lexicographical Neighbors of Flimping
Literary usage of Flimping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1862)
"Ho said, "Well, sir, I won't deny that the young woman is Bess, and perhaps she
may be on the cross, and I don't go to say that what with flimping, ..."
2. Representative British Dramas: Victorian and Modern by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"Not worth flimping, eh ? DALTON. What? don't twig me? Then it is a good get up.
[He lifts his hat, and gives him a peculiar look] Eh, Melter? ..."
3. Revelations of Prison Life: With an Enquiry Into Prison Discipline and by George Laval Chesterton (1856)
"Some thieves are expert at snatching anything from the person, and this branch
is termed flimping. A lady's reticule, a gentleman's watch, ..."
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